Stories
Lendl Oosthuizen
“Mum hugged me and said, ‘Your dad has gone to heaven’.”
Lendl Oosthuizen’s family moved from Zimbabwe to New Zealand in 2003. Settling in Hawke’s Bay, a year and a half later everything changed again for the sixteen-year-old when her father was killed in a car crash.
Jan Williams
“I thought she’d died, but didn’t want to ask”
Jan Williams grew up with her father and her four sisters, and the acceptance her mother was dead. It wasn’t until she was a teenager she realised the story she’d lived with – or built up around herself – wasn’t the full story.