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- Title: Beaten but not Broken
- Author : Vanessa Govender
- Release Date : January 12, 2018
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4334 KB
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At the height of her journalism career, more than one millionhouseholds across the country knew her name and her face. Herreportage on human suffering and triumph captivated viewers,and with it Vanessa Govender shot to fame as one of a handfulof female Indian television news reporters in South Africa. YetGovender, a champion for society's downtrodden, was hiding ashocking story of her own. In Beaten but not Broken, she finallyopens up about her deepest secret.She was a rookie reporter at the SABC in 1999. He was a popularpresenter at a radio station. They were the perfect pair, or so itseemed. Behind closed doors the bruising punches, the crackingslaps and the episodes filled with beatings, kicking and stranglingwere as ferocious as the emotional and verbal abuse he hurled ather. No one knew the brutal and graphic details of Govender's abuse... until now. In this memoir, Govender breaks the ranks of a closeknit,conservative community to speak out about her five-year-longhell in an abusive relationship. Govender tells a graphic story of extreme abuse, living with the painand how she was saved by her own relentless fighting spirit. Butjust as she thought she had finally overcome her past the publishingprocess triggers her trauma afresh and she is hurled back intofear and anxiety. This reality, and in a bid to be completely honestwith the reader, sees her penning an epilogue for her book twodays before it goes to print – a piece of writing that speaks to herongoing journey of healing.