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We will not be silenced!

This month marks a year since I suffered a massive stroke – two days before my birthday – live on radio. SABC talk radio station SAfm had been requesting an interview with me for some time and I finally complied on August 27 2019.

SAfm, like many other institutions during Women’s Month, had been focusing on issues affecting women. Last year, they were specifically celebrating young women “who have made it”. I suppose my discomfort had been exactly that – what had I done for them to believe that I

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