I HAVE LIFE

We have a choice in every moment in our life, but usually the bad moment give the bad effect in our life. But it wasn't happened to Alison, she can transformed her bad moment in her life become the advantage for herself and other people life. We can learn to her story below ....

Like an apparition, conjured out of the darkness, a young man with light blond hair pushed his face into the car. I immediately spotted the knife. It was a long, thin weapon, almost like a letter opener, with a tapering blade. It felt cold and spiny as he pressed it to my neck. When he spoke his voice, which was quiet and controlled, sounded as though it emanated from a distant planet. But every word thudded into my skull.
"Move over or I'll kill you," he whispered'


And so began Alison's nightmare journey with the two callous killers who were to rape her, stab her so many times doctors could not count the wounds, slit her throat and leave her for dead in a filthy clearing miles from the city of Port Elizabeth which was her home.
But Alison defied death. And more than that, she denied her attackers the satisfaction of destroying her life. I HAVE LIFE is the triumphant story of a woman who refused to become a victim. The courage which allowed her to move beyond severe physical and emotional trauma and to turn a devastating experience into something life-affirming and strong, is an inspiration to people everywhere.

The Noordhoek Ripper trial, as it was called, captured the country's interest with its confessions of Satanism and its exposure of random evil. One of the first South African rape survivors to speak to the media, Alison has in recent years spoken to thousands of people around the country and abroad. Alison's story was one of the first books of its kind to be published in South Africa, a country where rape statistics are among the highest in the world and is an invaluable survival guide. It has been classified as a best-seller in South Africa and has continued to be so since publication.

Marianne Thamm is an award-winning journalist who has worked for a variety of publications during her 16-year career. These include Femina, Cosmopolitan, House and Leisure, the mail & Guardian, The Cape Times, Style and Fair Lady. She lives in Cape Town and currently works as a freelance writer.



Sources : www.alison.co.za