When Secrets Become Stories: Women Speak Out

By (author): Sue Nyathi. Edited by Sue Nyathi, this collection gathers personal accounts from South African women of different racial, age and socioeconomic backgrounds who have experienced emotional, financial, physical or sexual abuse, often at the hands of partners, family members or strangers. Contributors include Lorraine Sithole, Desiree-Anne Martin, Mamokgethi Phakeng, Shafinaaz Hassim, Cathy Park Kelly and Olivia Jasriel, who writes about childhood abuse by a tennis professional. As Nyathi puts it, "I am not a victim; I am a survivor" — the book aims to confront South Africa's culture of gender-based violence through testimony.