Maumela Mahuwa

“It's an African thing mums do, and it's not good. You don't die for putting yourself first.”

“Learn that you have the power to think for yourself”

“You cannot be someone's life and forget that you are an individual.”

“The first thing women should do, even before marriage, is realise who they are.”

“It gets emotional sometimes you feel like crying sometimes because of what your character is going through.”

“It was not in my dreams to actually be an actress, it was just a job that was paying at the time and I thought acting at the time could not bring anything at home and then I'm still here now 25 years later and I'm like how did I get here.”

“When I am at peace, I am content.”

“I really don't think modern men are suggesting polygamy for the right reasons”

“What do you think you'd get out of that? You are going to spend the rest of your life in a mental tug-of-war with yourself, with the man and with the other woman.”

“If you see a man and he's married and he wants to marry you too, I need to ask you something as a woman: if you want to marry a man who is married to someone else, what are you hoping to achieve?”

“I would vehemently discourage women to get into polygamous relationships”

“We are creating a stage for an African child, so we say that nothing about us without us.”

“We want to offer Africans an opportunity to be able to pursue and make good living in the arts, and also teach the business side of the industry.”

“When they need, you know, some people are not even looking for motivation. They just need to touch the right system, you know, like look at the people like if she can make it, I can make it.”

“Right now we're looking at AI. You the realise that the only thing that can remain in the system of becoming something is actually being a filmmaker. That is one thing that we can do because AI is taking over jobs.”

“You know, parents are, they look at this industry as something to play around with. They don't look at it as a money making thing.”