Cash comfort of strangers

29 August 2016 - 09:11
By KATHARINE CHILD

Every publisher that quadriplegic Tracy Todd approached with her autobiography rejected it, saying only memoirs of famous people sell in South Africa. But it took Todd only 16 days to raise the R100,000 needed to publish her book - one of the fastest and most successful crowd-funding campaigns local donations website Thundafund has seen.

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