I am one of ten children born during a time when inequality and oppression was the norm in South Africa. Growing up in Ravensmead, Cape Town, I faced material as well as emotional poverty every single day of my childhood. My circumstances and environment gave me no reason to continue going to school. At the age of fourteen years old I ventured into the world, unprepared and unskilled. Everything dictated that life would be short, dirty and meaningless for me. But I had a vision, a goal that I passionately pursued. The goal was to make a difference in society, starting with me.

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