SHE had plans to celebrate her 25th birthday with a taste of home: a braai with friends on the farm in America they’d called home for the past few years.
But the celebration never happened – instead she spent her birthday in a hospital bed after her face was all but destroyed in a freak accident.
Chané Dreyer and her husband, Willem, work on a rice farm in Ruleville in Mississippi in the American South. She was operating a John Deere tractor when her life changed in an instant.
She’d stepped down to clear a blockage and the tractor lurched forward, knocking her down and then reversing over her, crushing her face.
Paramedics stabilised her at the scene before
