The accident happened on October 10, 2002. my husband Twambi was thrown off a car and overrun by a minibus. It was a miracle that he survived. He stayed in hospital for more than two years. We worked hard to make him walk again. But he was a different person. He beat me, he could take a knife, he did many bad things he would never do before. But he was sick. His brain was growing.
Of course my business collapsed. I did try to restart the business and went to South Africa in 2007. But I was tricked and my goods were confiscated. I lost all my cousins money. I lost my good friends.
Photograph and story by Gloria Kabango Mwanyongo, cross border trader in Blantyre, Malawi
Experience of this border
Location of border
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Blantyre, Southern Region, Malawi