IOL Digital Journalist Xolile Mtembu shares her personal experience of being bullied as a child.
| Published 9h agoWhen I was in Grade 6, I was bullied by a child in Grade 4. We were the same age. However, given that I started school when I was only four, I was significantly smaller than my peers.
In class, I was silent as a church mouse. During recess, I would eat my lunch silently while standing against the imposing, cold brick walls of the old primary school. My acquiescence must have come as no surprise to him as he behaved like he had smelled the fear in me. He saw me too, he could not escape my gaze as I stared him down, picturing an ant in his place and wishing I could shoot laser beams with my eyes. He did not say a word. By the time I left school, he was the same height he had been in Grade 8.
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