Alison Botha tells her life story and of reading culture — Transcript

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12. 0:53wow they're quite amazing aren't they
13. 0:55the choir of the Department of
14. 0:57Correctional Services there uh giving us
15. 1:00an opportunity to enjoy their wonderful
16. 1:03harmonies singing on this very special
17. 1:05day at the beginning of the fundam zanzi
18. 1:08uh championship for 2016 the seventh
19. 1:11edition thereof and this is an
20. 1:13opportunity for uh the inculcating of
21. 1:16the culture of reading and uh enjoying
22. 1:19the process of reading now somebody who
23. 1:22enjoys reading uh and also tells quite a
24. 1:25powerful story is somebody who's from
25. 1:28this area Alison B some of you may know
26. 1:31her story in 1994 she was brutally raped
27. 1:35assaulted uh stabbed uh 16 times and uh
28. 1:39to tell us a little bit more about her
29. 1:41story um 20 or so years on uh she's
30. 1:46written a bestseller actually 990,000
31. 1:49copies called I have life Allison thank
32. 1:51you very much for joining us and welcome
33. 1:53to the program thank you very much nice
34. 1:55to be here all right so um let's start
35. 1:58with the book actually because we're
36. 1:59talking about reading books and it's
37. 2:01990,000 copies sold but that means more
38. 2:04than 90,000 people have read it uh tell
39. 2:07us about your journey writing it well
40. 2:10that's the exciting thing to think so
41. 2:11many people have read it have heard my
42. 2:13story and shared it writing it was was
43. 2:16hard I wrote it with a girl called
44. 2:17Marian Tam who um was my ghost writer
45. 2:21because I think it was such a difficult
46. 2:22story to write on my own she made me
47. 2:24remember she made me go places that were
48. 2:26maybe hard for me to do on my own but it
49. 2:29was definitely a atic experience I think
50. 2:30telling a story that has a me I like
51. 2:34books that have a have a story or have a
52. 2:36message behind them you know not just a
53. 2:37story that I'm going to forget
54. 2:38afterwards so this was very much that it
55. 2:40was a it's a true life story and we
56. 2:43wanted to share also some of the lessons
57. 2:44that I learned in it so I found those
58. 2:46lessons myself in writing it yeah now
59. 2:49one of the things that we've learned
60. 2:50today is that particularly with inmates
61. 2:52at the Department of Correctional
62. 2:53Services um telling their own story uh
63. 2:56is a powerful process and um I don't
64. 3:00know healing maybe is that what you
65. 3:02found I think so I think it's you know
66. 3:04it's it's for me it's a double thing
67. 3:07it's what it's sharing I I find out
68. 3:09myself in talking about it I find out
69. 3:11what I what I'm finding out is the
70. 3:13lessons but also knowing that my lessons
71. 3:15might help someone else you've got
72. 3:18you've got two little boys I want to
73. 3:19know have you have you read to them do
74. 3:21they enjoy reading books not my book but
75. 3:24they do I mean they that's something
76. 3:25that from start they get got bit Dum
77. 3:27stories in fact we had a lovely um thing
78. 3:29where they actually we would just tell
79. 3:30stories they would have to give me three
80. 3:32random words and I would have to make up
81. 3:33a story with those three things in them
82. 3:36uh reading books that you know one of
83. 3:37the things was always it's my turn to go
84. 3:38and choose the books tonight it's
85. 3:40something that we're reading family even
86. 3:41my mom my mom won an award at the
87. 3:43library here in George for taking out
88. 3:45the most books in a year or something so
89. 3:47we're a reading family yeah all right
90. 3:49Alison we're going to leave it there but
91. 3:51thank you very much indeed for sharing
92. 3:52your thoughts with us and this beautiful
93. 3:54book I have life Allison's Journey uh
94. 3:57more than 990,000 copies sold and in
95. 4:01fact what I forgot to tell you is that
96. 4:03there's been a film that's now been
97. 4:05developed on this book look out for that
98. 4:08but also pick up the book and enjoy
99. 4:11reading this is a powerful story it may
100. 4:13inspire you as well we're going to leave
101. 4:14it there for the time being and catch up
102. 4:16with vein in the studio with the World
103. 4:18of Sport vein