Nomonde Scott’s journey

1996

● Nomonde Scott, a Cape Town Magistrate’s Court prosecutor and mother of three, is convicted of a drug-related offence and sentenced to 12 years behind bars.

1997

● Scott loses her appeal and becomes a “fugitive from justice to give birth” in the Eastern Cape.

1998

● She gives birth to Lubelo before she is arrested and starts serving her sentence.

2005

● Days before her release on parole her eldest son, Bevile, is murdered in Gugulethu.

2006

● Scott enrols at the University of the Western Cape for an LLB degree.

2008

● She graduates and registers for her master’s degree.

2010

● On the day she publishes a book about her life — Look Before You Leap — she receives a presidential pardon.