It is always said that life offers second chances, and that there is a key moment in which one begins to see things in a different way.
But what happened to
Alison Botha (55)
is truly incredible: she was reborn.
Alison lived an extreme situation with only 27 years.
The young woman had gone out to a party with friends and after having fun with her, the worst happened to her:
two people raped her, stabbed her and cut her neck
, but they failed to kill her.
The young woman was able to arrive in time for the doctors to miraculously save her life.
Botha's story was told in a book and a movie called
Alison
(2016), which is available on
Prime Video
.
How did she manage to survive her?
Alison travels the world as a speaker telling her story.
The worst night of her life
Alison Botha was born in 1967 in
South Africa
.
Her parents divorced her when she was ten, and as a child she grew up in Port Elizabeth with her mother and her brother.
After graduating from high school, she went out to travel the world and upon returning to her country, she began working as an insurance broker.
The worst day of her life was going to come on a special occasion for her.
It happened on December 18, 1994, Alison had decided to go out to a party with her friends when her death visited her very closely.
The girl was walking through the streets of Port Elizabeth and.
At that moment, she stopped her car at the door of her house and a man surprised her in her vehicle and forced her to get in with him.
Alison, frightened, took a trip with her attacker, who went looking for another man (both
s were identified as
Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger
).
The perpetrators took the woman to an area far from the city to do with her what they had planned:
rape and murder her
.
Alison's perpetrators were identified as Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger.
The men began to carry out their plan: they raped her and were ready to take the young woman's life.
First they suffocated her and then they began savagely stabbing her in the abdomen more than 30 times.
When they finished, they found that the woman was still alive, so they cut her neck 16 times.
They left believing that she had finally been murdered: "Nobody can survive that," said one of them, as reported by the
Daily Star
.
Inexplicable
Incredibly the miracle happened,
Alison was still alive
.
With the last of her strength, she wrote the names of her attackers in the sand, and headed towards the road to try and call for help.
The victim said that
she had to leave holding her head
because she felt that it was falling backwards.
In addition, she also had to hold onto her guts so they wouldn't fall out, and as she moved forward, she could feel something protruding from her abdomen.
“As I struggled forward my vision dimmed and faded and I fell many times but managed to get up again until I finally made it to the route,” Alison recalled many years later according to the Daily Star.
Alison Botha recounted that, after the attack, she had to leave holding her head because she felt it was falling backwards.
Almost dead, Alison threw herself on the asphalt for help.
A car drove by and called 911, but the ambulance arrived an hour later.
Fortunately, a young veterinary student named Tiaan Eilerd saw Botha lying unconscious and came to her rescue before the doctors arrived.
Finally, Alison was assisted and miraculously saved.
The woman, despite having been almost dead, was very clear who was responsible for the horrific attack.
She identified the attackers and the local guards stopped them.
At the time, the Alison Botha case was a national one and the press dubbed them "Rapist Rippers."
Both Toit and Kruger pleaded guilty to eight counts including kidnapping, rape and attempted murder and were sentenced
to life in prison in August 1995
.
The two attackers identified themselves as Satanists, who enacted ritual abuse.
“Satan really tried to steal my life,” Alison recounted many years later.
Alison married Tienie Botha and wrote a book called "I Have Life" recounting her tragic event.
An example of overcoming
After what happened to her, Alison became the face of feminism in South Africa and helped thousands of women to stop shutting up.
A year after the fateful attack, in 1995, the young woman met her husband Tienie Botha: "I think our mutual desperation was the basis of our deepening friendship as we helped each other out of the darkness," Alison said emotionally. telling his love story.
The couple married in February 1997 and had 2 children.
After getting her life back on track and finding happiness in the family she had formed, the woman decided to tell her story and wrote a book called
“I have life”
.
In 2016, her story was made into a movie with the movie
"Alison"
.
Today, Alison Botha is a renowned speaker and tells her story around the world: "The attack I suffered put me on this path where I can travel the world and help inspire other people," said the woman about her new goal in the life.
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