WHEN Justice Minister and Keembe member of parliament Princess Kasune marked her 50th birthday, she did not count the years quietly. Instead, she opened a window into a life that has repeatedly defied defeat and insisted on reinvention, describing herself as a “living miracle”. Kasune took people back to a version of herself that history rarely acknowledges, revealing that by age 17, she was a double orphan, had dropped out of Grade 11, and had become a teenage mother, married off before reaching adulthood. By age 21, she was HIV positive. A day after her birthday, Kasune shared on her WhatsApp status that despite all these setbacks, she chose early on not to break down, but to break through. “At...
