Ayanda Ngema
“They can no longer take my voice from me.”
Season One · The Women
Ten women.Ten stories.
The ten women of Volume One, each pictured as she chose to be seen. Her symbols. Her boundaries. Her colour. Her choice.
Not pity. Not shock.Not “how terrible.”
We’re asking you to sit with something harder: that the woman next to you at work, at church, in your family could be carrying a story like these — one you would never know by simply looking at her.
We ask whether you’ve ever looked at a woman and decided her whole story in one glance. We ask what it would take to see past the moment she survived, to the person she’s becoming.
What are you willing to see, that you’ve been taught to look away from?
Dannileen Fransman
“I have survived what tried to break me…”
Donna Coetsee
“I can see the love and determination she carries in her eyes.”
Elmethre De Bruyn
“Faith Rising”
Haroldene Le Roux Tshienda
“I thank my body for all it has borne…”
Janice Rothman
“Pain in purpose that produces peace.”
Lynn Hill
“…I became an unbreakable Earth Angel.”
Mariana Sampson
“She is a kept lady.”
Shanon Adams
“From the Grave, I Rise”
Roche Kester
A Special Tribute
A Tribute to Femicide in South Africa
The tenth story is not one woman’s story. It is a remembrance — held by the collection for the women of South Africa lost to femicide, and for the families who carry their names forward.
Your story. Your power.