Grossett was persuaded to join the party because of the plight of shack dwellers near her home
. The people had been moved in December from their settlement into her farming community. She believes she is now an outcast among the white people of the area.
"The first time I put a picture of myself on Twitter in my beret it went viral and the comments on that thread were my first experiences with racism," she told the Sunday Times. "I was excited and happy about what I was doing, and the people who responded were vile. White Afrikaans men laid into me.""As it got more common I began to realise that those comments are a direct representation of society.Grossett owns a horse-riding school and a smallholding with a view of a wetland and a new shack settlement.
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