Zuko Komisa

Glade is honoring the exceptional women in our lives with a special series called “In My Era” on Girl Let’s Talk every Wednesday. This week Andy Maqondwana and guest host Hulisani Ravele interviewed Ngemini Gontsana who shared her incredible journey.
Her friend Ziphelele describes Ngemini as a remarkable woman with a big heart to many around her. She is a professional registered Civil Engineer, who saw herself being widowed within three months after her wedding but continued to be an incredible sister, mother, aunt, and employee with a work ethic that is out of this world.
“Life doesn’t stop”
Ngemeni shared her experience of losing her husband at the age of 23 years and how she had to grow through the experience into a new era.
“It was a strong era because I needed to soldier on, nobody knew how to support me. I didn’t know the support I needed, and it just broke me. I spent a lot of my youth grieving. During that time, life happened. I had to live in the grief. It is unfortunate that for females, life doesn’t stop, everything happens all at once.”
Listen to the full conversation here:
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