Published by – Beyond The Vale Publishing
Published date – January 2024
This book is an incredible chronicle of life challenges, each of which would floor the life of any lesser person.
As the title proclaims, I Survived It All, is a story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit as manifested in the life of this one woman. This is not to mention the difficulties of a forced, child marriage, into a security establishment where the escape plot is the stuff of a movie. Then there is the struggle for a basic education, to be eked out in the midst of an insensitive and abusive bunch of boy classmates.
And what was supposed to be the final bliss in a marriage of choice becomes a nightmare of neglect and abuse. And the book title says it all – I Survived It All.
About the Author
Xoliswa Matanzima-Jozana is a retired public servant, having served in senior positions in The Presidency and the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Her former work experience includes university teaching at the Bendel State University (now named Edo State University) in Nigeria and the University of Transkei (now Walter Sisulu University) in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. She is passionate about rural development and observing different cultures as demonstrated in her chapter on travelling. Apart from this book, she has published in academic journals such as Africa Perspective, African Journal of Development Studies, University of Transkei journals such as the Journal of the Centre for Enrichment in Political Affairs, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences as well as the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung publications.
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