Writing brings her comfort

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The 17 year-old Cindy Vhukhudo Netshisaulu of Ha-Rabali in the Makhado municipal area is fast becoming a role model to her peers in her community.

The girl's writing skills have become her best comforter and friend in hard times and have lifted her to instant success. According to several observers, it is only a matter of time before she gets a break in the writing arena.

The Grade 11 pupil at Patrick Ramaano Secondary School in the Nzhelele area says she feels as if she has company whenever she starts writing. A pen and a paper give her company when she is lonely, she added.

Nestshisahulu's writing started in 2014 at the age of 15 while she was suffering from depression. "At that time, pen and paper were my worst enemies, but I drifted into writing. I felt like I was on my own with no one to comfort me in what I was going through. People were moving out of my life and my first writing was a novel about the challenges I was going through, and I also wrote a poem about nature.”

She added that she had produced a lot of material over the last two years, “and all I need is someone who can assist me in seeing that my work is published. I have put a lot of energy into it and would like to see people all over the world read and appreciate my work," she said.

Netshusahulu further said she felt blessed to have a mother who was everything to her. “I was broken emotionally; I lost the real me, while my mom did all for us to dress, eat and laugh like others," she said.

To the youth, Netshisahulu has a word of advice. "Take your education as a priority and the rest will come as a bonus.”

By: Elmon Tshikhudo

Elmon Tshikhudo started off as a photographer. He developed an interest in writing and started submitting articles to local as well as national publications. He became part of the Limpopo Mirror family in 2005 and was a permanent part of the news team until 2019.