Gilson Saleshando

"What these ladies and gentlemen have done is a very brave act and we need to salute them for that."

"Turn your back on military rule."

"This will also be a referendum on delivery."

"One day [at school] we were in a queue, and we were asked a question. ‘O mo kae?’ If you said ‘I am a Motswana,’ you were asked to step to one side. If you said ‘I am a Moyeyi,’ you were asked to step to another side. Then all of us who had said we were Bayeyi were beaten up."

"They said our fathers working in the South African mines called themselves Batswana, so why were we saying we were Bayeyi?"