When Lorato was in her teens, she started drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes for fun, but they turned into addictions which she battled to give up for 20 years.
For ten years Beatrice was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes, an addiction which affected her relationship with her live- in partner, the father of her four children.
Becoming friends with boys who drank alcohol and smoked dagga at the age of 13 drove Nick to follow the same pattern even though he was already attending services at the Universal Church.
