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Speaking and Being Heard
Gloria Mbovu
South AfricaGALLERYCONVERSATION
I was born, one of twins, in the Cape Town Tygerberg Hospital. My parents divorced when I was only two days old.
Having a baby at such an early age was really hard. I had to leave school and was forced to work as a domestic worker, which I couldn’t really do because I was so young. I tried very hard, but I just couldn’t do it.
When I was twenty-one years old, I got married to my husband. He is not the father of my first child. A couple years after being married, we had a child together. I again suffered very much from postnatal depression, although I did not know what it was called at the time. The clinic I went to in the township did not know anything about depression. So, I was unable to get help from them.
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