Nomaindiya Mfeketo

“As leaders of society, we can draw many lessons from the younger generation to pursue radically different futures for Africa than its current state of dependency on the dominant economies”

“This generation assert their African identities and are actualizing our clarion call of a united Africa, at peace with itself”

“The so-called born-frees are standing up, saying not in our name, not a minute longer.”

“We are yet to truly see our unity in our diversity, first as a country and also as a continent, a continent that humanity in its entirety, calls home”

“The time is now to cement social cohesion to further strengthen us as a people to weather these recent waves of racist torrents”

“Since 1994, the dawn of democracy brought along a new determination by the democratic government. Ours was to restore human dignity from a long history of brutal oppression”

“We continue to call on banks to help increase access to home loans in order to close the gap for this important sector of workers across all industries”

“We urge efficient use of this emergency fund to alleviate the plight of our people in the face of unfortunate circumstances such as fires, floods and other natural disasters”

“I think for each and every woman, what happened in the last election, the first Black woman, being elected as a deputy president. It's something that we are very excited about”

“It is our time to assist in whatever we can and not necessarily being back, but creating a better world for everybody”

“Working in an environment where President Mandela was president of the country was very exciting”

“There's lots of improvement, but I must still say there is much, much more to be done because we still have, certain things that, undermine the effort that is being made by women”

“Definitely the voice of the women have continued to prevail”

“We were forced to learn each and every language or syllabus in Afrikaans, doing maths in Afrikaans and doing biology in Afrikaans, doing everything.”