“I don’t want to write because I dont want to Remember, it makes me very angry. But most Importantly, I want to move forward”

“I told the policeman what happened. He asked me: ‘Are you a woman?’ I told him: ‘Yes I am.’ He didn’t take my statement. Instead he went to other police and I heard him laughing. The other police also came to ask me what had happened. I later found out they were making fun of me. I went home, wearing one shoe, and feeling very devastated. I never believed that the institutions I trusted could do this to me. I arrived at home and went straight to bed without a statement being taken.”

“What did I do to you, why are you shooting me.’ He continued and shot her on the forhead that third bullet threw my beloved daughter to the ground.”

“here’s these bitches trying to steal our girls” cried the men before attacking Ntombozuko and her friends.

“Then he said he is going to show me that I am a girl, he pulled out a gun and told me to strip off my clothes.”

“Even now when I’m on the go, I am always looking out like I will hopefully see Ntsikie.”

“I’m afraid every night. I don’t know if there is someone out there waiting for me…”