Exodus | 'They are never going to break me' - from KSB, to street child, to the small screen

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Marietjie Bothma earns a living by making people feel good. She gets a crowd going at events she hosts and made TV audiences laugh as the indecisive blonde who speaks fluent Zulu in a King Pie ad.

But she carries heavy emotional baggage which has been with her since she was a little girl, adopted into a family that introduced her to KwaSizabantu.