Liz Godwin lives with her husband Rob in Waterside Village, outside East London, In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, a few hundred kilometers from Gqerberha, formerly Port Elizabeth, where she was born.
Rob and Liz have five children; one living in South Africa, three in New Zealand, and one in England. They also have several grandchildren. Liz writes her stories to remind her family of their history, proudly South African.
Her grandmother and her great-grandmother were confined to a concentration camp near Standerton during the Anglo-Boer conflict.