The energy in the room changed.’ What started as a friendly conversation with her gynaecologist during an ultrasound turned serious when Melanie Verwoerd’s doctor discovered a growth on her ovary. In her book Never Waste a Good Hysterectomy, Melanie says she felt like she was standing in front of a dam wall, watching cracks start to form.
Melanie’s is a name that’s familiar to most South Africans. In the 1990s, she and her then-husband Wilhelm Verwoerd, the grandson of former South African prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the
