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Thembakazi Luvuno is a 20 year old girl from the Eastern Cape. She's the fourth child to her father and the second born to her mother. Thembakazi grew up at Peddie, Hoyi Location until she finished Primary school. From there she went to Uviwe Senior Secondary School at Scenery Park in East London and fell in love with writing poetry and short stories when she was in grade nine. Her own life's experiences led her to become more interested and inquisitive about other people's lives. The only time she would find sanity in all that she heard would be the times when she merged pen and paper to tell her stories and the stories of her neighbourhood.

Thembakazi found herself to be part of a community that was behind the bars of silence and ignorance, saw a family dissolve and the children left to handle life by themselves. She heard whispers, but thought nobody ever told the stories of our time. With nothing much, Thembakazi was determined to let it grow and allow it to be known not only by those close to her, but by the world of which she forms part.

Her journey to journalism started when enrolling for a Journalism Diploma at Walter Sisulu University of Technology. There she was groomed to become a better writer and a better representative of the community in different ways, but life taught her humility, servant hood and purpose during those three years. She now pursues her purpose in life, as she joins the struggle of our time through becoming a bridge of communication towards that brink of dawn, which brings better life and positivity to all.