Hi. I am Regomoditse Mmamoabi Kgomo. I am 19 approaching 20 this year. It’s funny how you plan something but when you put it into action it doesn’t come out exactly as you planned it. The mind people! The mind!

Here’s how I thought mine will be:

6 years : 1st grade, learn new stuff .

17 years: 12th grade, ready to start varsity.

18 years: 1st year student at Wits

Here’s how it turned out to be:

6 years old

I remember a week before starting my first grade at Phutha Primary School… I was visiting one of our relatives, it was after the festives. Yay! It’s a new year! It’s a moment where we are all happy, right? Yes!

I was also happy. Until one of my blood relatives ruined it all for me. I sometimes fail to understand how men see grown women in kids. The places that we supposed to feel protected are where we get emotionally destroyed, physical harrassed and more.

I lost a piece of myself that day.