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I adopted wrong role models, and made many wrong decisions for my life,” he says, drowning in a sea of forced survival with very few waves of opportunity. At that stage, leaving school felt like the best option…
The trauma of not being fully accepted anywhere, and not having a ‘home’, sleeping alone in homes that were not his own, going to bed hungry night after night, is etched on Mnu’s face as he tells his story. […]
How City Mission helped one young woman find hope and vision for her life “I have faced many challenges,” says Lazola Hoya as she describes some of what she has endured, from her upbringing in King Wiliams Town in a home hard hit by unemployment, to her new season in Khayelitsha as a young adult…
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How one woman’s life has changed with faith in Jesus, support from committed organisations and a sisterhood that prays and stays together. “I started with drugs when I was 18 years old because I heard it helped a person lose weight, and I was struggling then,” says Chilli (Charity) Ndimande, “as all my siblings could…
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How Ayanda Gwaza turned his life around against the many forces pulling him away. Even when he was a young boy, soccer was Ayanda’s world. “I had the privilege of playing for Ajax in Grade 7,” he says, “But when I was in High School and Ajax did not want me, I was so disappointed…
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“One day during one of my prison sentences I was in the courtyard, and I saw this man speaking to the guys, I knew he was part of a programme for offenders, and there were two voices in my head,” explains Cameron Jooste. “One said, what is the use? Don’t bother going there. But the…
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“I was saying I want to start a new life, that I want to change …” Msindisi Qashani tells of how desperate he was for a life transformation, but also, how difficult that was proving to be after exiting prison when he was 20 years old. His time in prison had not been easy initially.…
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