My journey started at the age of 6 where my teacher used to tell me I was stupid and color blind and used to hit me over the head with a feather duster.  She even once stabbed me in the head with some scissors! This developed in me many insecurities; however, I still tried my best throughout my primary school years and even made prefect in grade 7.  Once I got to high school I excelled at sport where I was rugby captain, tennis captain and house captain.  I got colors in rugby, athletics and tennis. 

My downward spiral started when my sister was killed in a car accident and this after we’d had a huge fight and I never got to apologies.  This was to become my excuse for all the wrong choices I made for the next 18 years. 

Once I left matric I started working in the motor Industry and that’s when I started smoking, drinking and partying.  At my 21st I was offered cocaine by a friend, and I became a weekend drug/alcohol addict.  At the age of 23 I was introduced to crack cocaine (this became my drug of choice), and this plunged me into a 15-year nightmare. 

During those 15 years I literally lost everything.  Houses, cars, huge amounts of cash but much more valuable than material items, myself respect, my family, my dignity and my will to live.

In 2013 I was admitted to a men’s faith-based recovery center where I completed a 6-month program.  I done the program but with all the wrong motives.  It was a self-seeking exercise I used to gain back my family, proving that it was still all about me and my needs. I still had not opened my eyes to the truth that I needed to change in order for my life to change. 

Within 3 months I had relapsed and had to be fetched out of a crack house in Rosettenville as my mind had not been renewed and I had not applied any of the tools that I had been taught.

My relapse opened my eyes, and this is when I decided to make a CHOICE to do whatever it took to turn my life around.  The first step was to surrender my whole life to the Lord Jesus Christ and to start walking in obedience to His word.  It was a day-by-day journey and not an easy road, but by surrendering my life to the Lord Jesus Christ, this has given my life meaning and purpose again. ALL GLORY TO GOD