Inspirations: Namibia's Outcast Mayor

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In 2010, at the age of 26, Outlook Inspirations nominee Livey Van Wyk became the youngest person ever to be elected mayor in Namibia - an achievement all the more extraordinary because just a few years before the townspeople of Witvlei had made it very clear that she wasn't welcome there. She was attacked and ostracised because she was HIV-positive. Livey had got the diagnosis soon after discovering she was pregnant. Image: Livey van Wyk Credit: UNICEF Torgovnik Verbatim Photo Agency