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"I told him that I was there as an individual with the responsibility and mandate to do oversight in entities of government, and he still refused"
"He was so arrogant that he pointed me with fingers and said he is the station commander, and I am going to do what he says; he got his ways of doing things, and I am going to listen to him"
"You look at the crime history of these stations, and we try to go in and zoom in to what could be the challenges that make the services of SAPS so imperfect that even the communities lose trust in SAPS. And this is what you get"
"As I am getting a briefing, she gets a call to say you must stop that briefing and you must not allow her in the premises; that’s an instruction from the province"
"Women have always been at the centre of the revolution. Let us honour them, and place them in the place they deserve in history"
"South Africa is no different. Standing head and shoulders as a fearless force for liberation, Mama Winnie Mandela remains an inspiring tale of a woman who, during the most conservative of eras, confronted male Afrikaner soldiers and inspired military men and youth to fight for freedom"
"The role of women has always been far more than the reproductive labour that all seem to think is simply what women should do in times of struggle"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.