Mzo your step-father was recruited into the Police force while your mother worked as a caregiver . They were able to buy a house in Strand and a when you were two, your little sister who had the biggest eyes you had ever seen was born . Life for your family started . They sent you to day care. They made friends and threw parties . These were the best days . Nobody could have imagined that things would take a bad turn . It all started when your mother found a strange bundle of herbs in the bathroom . She consulted a Sangoma , who told her there’s is a woman trying to break up her household . From then on , your father started to make questionable friends , becoming a corrupt cop by the day . He also now drank too much and beat up your mother . He spent weekends with his nyatsi. Finally , when you were ten , without informing your mother , he sold the family house and disappeared leaving you , your mother and sister stranded in Strand .

Your mother packed your bags and made a plan to travel back to Port Elizabeth to her parents’ home . They had left her a house . Coming back home meant facing old demons including your real father who had surprisingly became a born again Christian. Your father showed interest in getting to know you but he was leaving for Cradock , where he had a wife and wanted you to come with him . That sounded like an adventure so you left Port Elizabeth to live with him .