Siphokazi Mpofu hates seeing those around her suffer. “I love people, it’s painful I’m not doing this for the sake of being loved, I’m helping the boy child,” she said. As one of the 12 winners of the 2022 Daily Dispatch and Johnson & Johnson Local Hero Awards, Mpofu, 35, from Selborne, has been counselling victims of sexual abuse and violence through her Izibazana Women’s Association NPO.