This simple tale of a goat-herding young girl who wants to go to school is as heartwarming as it is heartbreaking. When a 20-something school teacher from Cape Town is posted to rural Riemvasmaak in the Kalahari, she encounters an uneducated but talented little girl whose life she is determined to turn around. In her battle to teach the intellectually-starved Meisie, the teache...
A terrible disease destroys Karen Viljoen’s life as a happily married woman. The discovery that she has leprosy is but the beginning of her trouble. She ostracised by her community. Her husband cheats on her and she loses custody of her son. She nearly has a nervous breakdown and her doctor’s girlfriend is jealous and interferes with her treatment...