Newsletter| “I was so broken but I had no choice but to turn my pain and my doubts into determination”: At the age of 14, Constance Nengovhela had to take care of herself, her brother & her cousin-sister. Today she is a qualified seafarer & business owner
because their parents have either died or divorced, or work far from home, often ask themselves.child-headed households.
“Nobody could help me. I had to either commit suicide or find healing within myself, and I chose the latter.”This was an all too familiar struggle. She grew up a broken human being. For instance, she remembers attending her Grade 1 classes at Mphagane Junior Primary School under a marula tree because there were not enough classrooms at the time.
“Nobody could help me. I had to either commit suicide or find healing within myself, and I chose the latter. In 2011, she joined the SA Maritime Safety Authority as a deputy registrar of seafarers, and then as manager at the centre for boating from 2014 until 2017.
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