Imibuzo enkentezayo xa kusweleke umkhwetha yile: Umntwanomntu ubhubhe njani ekho amadoda kwisithili olukele kuso? Asingomadoda anamava kusini na ebemele kukuqinisekisa ukuba isiko lihamba ngendlela kwaye akubikho mahlazo nazintsizi? my name is zikhona plaatjie, i am 30 years of age, the second born of two children. i am married and have two boys. i was born in eastern cape, in a town called butterworth also known as gcuwa. i was raised in the rural parts of the town, in langeni location. i grew up doing typical girl child chores such as collecting water from the river, collecting wood from the forest to make fire, attending traditional ceremonies such as umeluko which an african celebration when a boy comes from initiation school. we usually attended a lot of different traditional ceremonies and we enjoyed the simple rural life of cooking on a wood fire, maintaining our grandmother’s garden which produced sweet potato, cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes and spinach that she sold for profit.