Life Lessons: Your relationship with Jesus matters more than religion

A remarkably youthful 91-year-old, Jeanette Latimer looks back on her journey from deep-rooted religiosity to a living, personal relationship with Jesus that transformed not only her own life, but generations of her family

I was born in Grahamstown (Makhanda), South Africa, in 1934. My father worked for Barclays Bank, so we were transferred all over the place. We didn’t stay in Grahamstown for very long and eventually ended up in east London.

My sister was four years older than me. We went together to the convent in Queenstown (now known as Komani) and when she matriculated, my parents decided to send me to boarding school in Umtata (Mthatha), as we had a lot of family in the Transkei.