Extract
There is a lot of talk about bad fathers. Much less is said about mothers. It is taboo to question a mother’s love.
Moshitadi Lehlomela breaks this silence as she recalls her childhood in rural Limpopo. In a homestead shared by her large family – where laundry was done in a river, water fetched from a communal tap and food cooked on an open fire – she watched as her little world was made smaller. She had to navigate poverty, substance abuse and oppressive gender scripts dictated by tradition and religion, along with brutal maternal figures whose feelings of helplessness were taken out on her.
Moshitadi is a mother wound recovery
