"It became difficult for me to provide for my children after I left my abusive husband who drank alcohol, cheated on me and beat me up. I took my three children with me and we shared a house with my grandmother, mother and brother.
Being unable to find a job for 10 years after she completed her matric turned Nokhwezi into an angry monster who nearly stabbed her brother with a knife after a minor argument.
"Life became uphill for me and my five siblings after our parents passed on within months of each other. My grandmother raised us with her pension money, but it was the most difficult time for all of us. The hope of finding a job after I completed matric was all that kept me going.
For three years Lucky lived a life of humiliation when he was retrenched from his job after seven years. He lived with his partner and their child in a shack in the backyard of his parent's house.
