CAROL Sanderson, owner of Casambo Exclusive Guest Lodge in Mpumulanga, lives the high life. Today she feasts on lamb shank, but she grew up on meals of pap, spinach and rodents. Owning a guest lodge was never in her wildest fantasy."Don’t get stuck in your past, create your future," she says. "I want to share my success with other people and break the generational curse of poverty — not in my time, not again."Sanderson grew up in Barberton, Mpumulanga. Her unmarried mother abandoned her and her three siblings when she was seven years old. Her oldest brother, who was eight at the time, tried to provide for the children by gambling."When he won, we would have a decent meal, pap and morogo," she says. "When he lost, he caught rodents and that would be our meal — it was better than nothing."An elderly neighbour came to the starving children’s rescue. She arranged for Sanderson to wash clothes for a wage, which occasionally helped to put food in the pot. Eventually, a relative came to fe...
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