Reality TV star and businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize has shared light about how political riots affected her and family in a newly released 104-page book about her rise to fame.

Mkhize lost her father and cousin during the riots in the late 1980s. Her father was found dead in a stream in Umlazi with a bullet hole in his head. This and other details are part of her book, Mamkhize — My World My Rules. The story is narrated by Mkhize to writer Amanda Ngudle...