Vinette Ebrahim

"I’m not in a position where I can sit back and go on with life as normal without working ... I take on any and all of the jobs offered to me."

"They still pay me the same as, let’s say, 10 years ago,” she said. “I’m worth much more than that and so are my peers... I will take hands with anyone supporting my stance, something needs to be done."

"Although my role in Legacy was not big, I still enjoyed working with them."

"In my head Charmaine does no longer exist and I made peace with that ... A lot of people still call me Charmaine, especially in the shops"

"Even though I had friends as a child, I often chose to be on my own because my games were not conventional children’s games."

"I was the one who initiated school plays and drama projects."

"At primary school I re-wrote the Nativity, inventing a story about a blind girl who dreamt about witnessing the birth of Jesus and when she woke up, on Christmas morning – she could see! My teachers were so impressed, they allowed me to direct it as well."

"In high school, drama was not part of the syllabus, so I organised drama classes after school and did a play with a few other students which was recommended to be performed for the South African Black Students Association’s first national congress."

"If I am to be known by a colour, then I want to be known as a brown South African. I tried for so long to be black, politically, but that proved to be a misnomer."