Maryse Zeidler for CBC writes, “when Patience Magagula came to Canada as a refugee in 2007, she experienced social isolation, culture shock and the remnants of past traumas.
Magagula had been living in South Africa for seven years. She had fled there from Zimbabwe, where she faced political persecution in the ongoing conflict between the ruling Shona tribe and hers, the Ndebele. She prefers not to describe details of what she endured because she still fears retribution today, but she says it left scars on her body.”
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