This is where the journey begins. Part I follows my life from Tshivhulani Village through childhood, education, hardship, university, the search for work, professional development and the PhD journey. These are not simply memories of what happened. They are the experiences that shaped the questions I would later begin to ask about life, knowledge, society and the world around me.
Explore the Autobiographical Journey
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Post 1: When the Village Becomes Your Classroom
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Post 2: A Journey Shaped by Circumstance
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Post 3: Do What Is Within Your Control and Let the Unknown Unfold
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Post 4: Does Everything Really Happen for a Reason?
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Post 5: The Situation Is Now in Your Hands
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Post 6: When the Situation Became Worse
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Post 7: Is the Pattern Becoming Clear?
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Post 8: Do Your Part, Even If It Is Only a Drop in the Ocean
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Post 9: When Everyone Started Helping
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Post 10: The Human Sacrifice
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Post 11: Perhaps I Had Misunderstood Them
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Post 12: Was It Really a Change of Heart?
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Post 13: The Hidden Cost of Getting Your First Job
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Post 14: A Plan Built on Hours We Had Not Yet Worked
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Post 15: Do We Just Let His Efforts Go to Waste?
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Post 16: The Handwritten CV
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Post 17: When the Municipality Finally Called
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Post 18: The Interview I Could Not Afford to Attend
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Post 19: I Could Not Afford to Quit My Job
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Post 20: Does Hard Work Really Pay?
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Post 21: When an Internship Has Served Its Purpose
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Post 22: I Went to George Looking for a Job, Not a PhD
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Post 23: Was I Supposed to Be in George?
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Post 24: A Thank You That Took More Than Ten Years
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Post 25: When Explaining the Parts Does Not Explain the Whole
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Post 26: Was Life Preparing Me for the PhD?
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Post 27: When the PhD Made My World Bigger
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Post 28: Building My Grandmother a Place to Call Home
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Post 29: The I, Them, and We
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Post 30: Finishing a PhD from an Unfinished Chicken Shed
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Post 31: When a Qualification Was Not Enough
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Post 32: Returning to the Place I Had Left
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Post 33: Everything Will Be Alright
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Post 34: Was This What the Dream Meant?
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Post 35: Coincidence, Providence or Something Else?
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Post 36: Returning to the Ten Modules
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Post 37: When Help Was Not a Loan
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Post 38: I, Them and We
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Post 39: When the We Became I Again
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Post 40: The Person Whose House I Helped Build
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Post 41: Do You Think You Did All of This Alone?
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Post 42: Where Does the We End?
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Post 43: Beyond the Living “We”
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Post 44: Was I Taken to Heaven?
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Post 45: What Do I Actually Know?
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Post 46: The Absence I Had Not Explained