It’s a Thursday evening. On the streets of Braamfontein, outside the beautiful old Holy Trinity Catholic Church, students bustle along pavements and traffic snarls its way into a metallic rush-hour knot.
Inside the church, it’s calm and quiet. It was here that students fleeing the police were offered refuge during last year’s #FeesMustFall protests.
I’m sitting with the founder of a support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) African refugees, Ricus Dullaert, and three of its many members from Zimbabwe who have decided to tell me their stories.