Grandmother

Gogos in South Africa, who look after millions of children, often without assistance, need to be empowered with resources and training

‘Women like my grandmother held up half the sky with simple food, the spirit of celebration and an open kitchen door’

“She took me in after my parents separated, something which caused my mother’s mental illness which she lived with until she died in 2006.”

A holiday with my grandmother shows me another way of life, one with different ways of being.

An angry grandmother used her handbag to fight off a gang of sledgehammer-wielding robbers who were attempting to raid a jeweller’s shop on Tuesday.