Black Bird
I am the last born in a family of four. My father is South African and went into exile during the 70’s and ended up in Zambia where he met and married my mother, an intelligent and beautiful Kaonde woman from the village of Solwezi. After Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980 the couple left Zambia with their 3 children and decided to settle in Harare, where I was born in 1983. However shortly after Mandela was released in 1991 my parents broke up and we moved with ym dad back to South Africa. My mother passed away in 1995 and since then my life has been filled with one seemingly insurmountable challenge after another. After my her passing in Zimbabwe, I stayed in the Harare Children’s Home for two years. The last place I ever imagined I would be in was in an orphanage… and now there I was…….staying at a state run children’s home.