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May 14, 2024 49 mins

This week’s episode is the unbelievable survival story of Alison Botha, a woman who went through so many unfathomable things, but lived to tell her story. I feel so honored to get to discuss this amazing woman and her enduring strength. Trigger Warning: sexual assault, violence, attempted murder.

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Sources:

Tinning, Danielle. "‘Do You Think She’s Dead?’: Inside The Incredible Survival Story Of Alison Botha." AllThatsInteresting.com, October 22, 2023, https://allthatsinteresting.com/alison-botha. Accessed April 18, 2024.

Bridger, E. (2024). Apartheid’s ‘rape crisis’: understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s–1990s. Women’s History Review, 33(2), 265–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2219535

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