by Salha Kaitesi | Apr 20, 2020 | Thoughts & Reflections
I’ve been living with chronic pain since being diagnosed with Chronic Myalgia in 2014, and if I must be quite honest, my life has never been the same again. Living with chronic pain makes day-to-day life really difficult. The pain has taken over every single part of...
by Natacha Umutoni | Aug 8, 2017 | Family, Lifestyle, Thoughts & Reflections
I miss you every single day. I see you in every stranger that I meet. I feel you in every song, the lyrics remind me of our conversations. Sometimes I stop at your scent, with hopes of seeing you. There are days when it’s easier, and those days I tell myself that you...
by Teakisi | Mar 1, 2017 | Current Affairs, Health, Thoughts & Reflections
By Eunice Aber I sat in the doctor’s room, awestruck with a mixture of wonder and sadness. Part of me was numb with shock, the other part had to be conscious as I listened to and translated the distress of the women that walked into the room. I had brought my aunt to...
by Teakisi | Sep 28, 2016 | Empowerment
By Eunice Aber This week caught me thinking about a topic that keeps mulling in my mind time and again. It is quite an interesting one and probably something I shouldn’t be thinking about this early. But being a woman and also a thinker, this can’t escape the...
by Teakisi | Aug 8, 2016 | Health, Thoughts & Reflections, Uncategorised
By Mako Muzenda I’m one of the unfortunate women cursed with a hellish period. Every month, I go through the same routine: throwing up every few hours or so, feeling like my uterus is getting gut-punched, and living in the constant fear that I’m leaking...