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The suicide rate in South Africa is alarming. According to the World Health Organisation, about 800 000 people take their own lives every year, with our country recording the sixth-highest rate of suicide in Africa. What these figures also show is that life is incredibly difficult for many people, which is why I started Beautiful Scar, a safe space where people can talk freely about their hardships. I know first-hand the realities of a hard-knock life, from being homeless to losing my mom and being a divorcee by 28, resulting in me trying to take my own life.
When I was 10, my father was retrenched and our house was repossessed. Imagine being told as a child that the home my
