I Choose Life

What do you do when life gives you every reason to give up?

For years, Tebele Makhetha was building the life she had prayed for — a successful career, a growing family, and a future filled with possibility. Then life began to unravel: a breast cancer diagnosis, later the words ‘it has spread,’ a marriage that ended, career uncertainty, and the emotional weight of motherhood, loss and unanswered questions.

Amid the heartbreak, hospital visits, scan results and setbacks, Tebele discovered something unexpected: courage is not found in having all the answers — it is found in making a choice. A choice to keep believing. A choice to keep hoping. A choice to keep living.

With honesty, warmth and remarkable vulnerability, I Choose Life is a memoir about faith, resilience, identity and healing — and the lessons that emerge when life does not go according to plan. Life does not always give us a choice about what happens to us. But every day, it gives us a choice about how we will respond. And sometimes the bravest choice we can make is simply this: to choose life.