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"We will work tirelessly with all relevant stakeholders to ensure justice is served and that this challenge is addressed decisively"

"Competition, when healthy, can strengthen industries rather than weaken them. Informal traders at taxi ranks, selling similar goods, compete without violence by improving their products and services. This spirit of coexistence must be embraced by our transport sector"

"Our traditional taxi industry is an integral part of our economy and must remain so. However, it should adapt, modernise, and embrace healthy competition to ensure sustainability and service excellence"

"The continent depends on us, South Africa, to showcase our capability, our commitment and what we can achieve as Africans. That responsibility now lies in your hands as law enforcement agencies, as we head into the weekend"

"We must ensure a successful and incident-free event over the coming days as Heads of State arrive"

"These events were held across the country, and the analysis and reports we received confirm that all engagements, working rooms and meetings proceeded without incident. This is because of your hard work and dedication, and we thank you for ensuring that South Africa remains a place our guests can trust"

"Where roads are closed, let us not force our way through. Let us understand that these measures are in the best interest of our country and our people. This event is important – it contributes to our economy and strengthens the standing of our nation"

"With that, I want to wish all law enforcement agencies the very best. We know you will do us proud, because you have consistently demonstrated your capability. [We] rely on you to distinguish between right and wrong and to act strictly within the laws and the Constitution of our country"

"It also aims to empower compliance with administrative or legal necessities, elevate the status of occupation, guide the conduct of public servants, and establish and standardize roles and pathways to facilitate recruitment and maintenance by departments"

"To address these concerns, there is a need to strengthen management capacity, including the introduction of workplace orientation and induction programs, improving effective planning and performance management and appraisal systems, and managing the career progression and career incidents of public servants effectively through the institutionalization of the Head of Public Administration"

"Integrity assessments are becoming mandatory in the South African government, and there is a need to tighten specific occupation-based competency assessments"

"Public Service Commission has an invaluable role to play in any revised governance framework, including the professionalization of the public sector. It is critical to ensure the maintenance of effective and efficient public administration and high standards of professional ethics in public service"

"National School of Government must work with the PSETA and the DPSA to determine appropriate training and learning pathways to assist in the professionalization of employees, including the launch of the executive education portfolio of programs to support the professionalization of the executives within departments"

"COVID-19 has exposed growing concerns about the ability of government departments to convert policy into practice and to utilize resources effectively"

"Professionalisation Framework seeks to address persistent problems in the South African government, including a lack of commitment, inadequate service delivery, poor levels of performance and skills among some senior staff, and underdeveloped performance assessment systems"

"Professionalization has several key goals, including setting norms and standards to improve the nature of the workforce, regulating workers whose occupation can influence the wellbeing, safety, or property of others, and upgrading public trust and confidence"

"Professionalization should result in the development of a shared set of values, culture, and ethos among public servants"

"Whatever angle you use to look at our scenario, government alone can never make the required dent in turning the tide against – poverty, unemployment and inequality in our province"

"It was very difficult, but as an actor I always say the more difficult something is, the better for me because it helps me grow, it gets me out of my comfort zon"

"I had to dig deep a lot because when you speak a language that’s you’re not familiar with, you have to make sure everything is proper,,,"

"The title for this painting is from the Devil in the White City, a book about a murderer who destroyed women during the chaos surrounding the Chicago’s 1893 World Fair. The image of “manufacturing of tears” fit well with the imagery I had been collecting of towers of babel connected to crying Mary Magdalenes. I was interested in placing these Babel-Magdalenes so that they covered the landscape, each unable to move."

"In creating the collage, the windmill was surreptitiously appeared…and it became apparent that is was there to blow debris into the Magdalene’s eyes and cause them to cry. In the process of collage, there are happy accidents that astound me. Next, I needed to figure out why they must cry and in my mind’s eye, I saw these structures all aflame. I realized that they were not merely sad but that they had to cry from danger of their own peril. For this reason, one is holding an onion…so as to produce more tears."

"“Each woman must cry and contribute her tears to a communal glass. By working together, perhaps one day they will produce enough tears to put out one fire and spare the one who is closest to immediate danger. To stop participating results in death.”"

"My paintings function as allegories and this one I think is as a metaphor for work and contributing to something like social security."

"My studio is a giant collage with images taped to the walls. By surrounding myself with images and fragments from paintings, I find relationships. From there I move things with tape to make a more specific composition of forms. It can be a slow process that sometimes takes years or a lightning fast instant when two things get stuck together and make a perfect new statement that I then render in paint."

"Painting is about painting and its history. In some ways, I am trying to bring the past back and keep it alive, and in other ways, I weave quotations of past work into a narrative that reflects my life experiences in the present now. I paint from collages cut from the pages of Western European art history, so in a way, I work to preserve the past, and to create a narrative – to write my name on body of work mostly made by men."

"I individually value the artists of the past but I also look at what I am doing like a quilt making."

"I grew up sleeping beneath quilts made by my great-grandmother. Each design had a name and meaning and each piece of cloth was a remnant from a dress of the many daughters, granddaughters, or great granddaughters. Each scrap went back to a greater cloth from which it was cut. They were narratives of textiles, garments, and lives; all combined they contained the aura of our family. Each was designed into a new creation to cover us from scraps of the old. Nothing was lost; it was ordered and reabsorbed into a larger pattern. This reflects my own process working from the fabric of art history. To answer your question: Yes! I love them all. I am interested in it all of art’s past. It gives me more to work with."

"I was teaching in Spain spring of 2020 and I watched as FSU’s campus in Italy close as the virus was killing thousands; and then, our own campus in Valencia closed. It was necessary for me to evacuate but not before I had to quickly try to finish a large painting project there and ship the work to friends in Paris and Vienna. Some of my packages have still not arrived at their destination because Covid has disrupted service and made things very complicated. It’s not a safe time to distribute art when the opening of services and facilities is so up in the air. Usually I show in ten shows a year all over the US and abroad. For now, I am taking a hiatus from exhibiting in person. I am hoping to take the next couple of years to turn inward and make my work in an intimate way without the pressure of circulation."

"I was born in Louisiana going back upwards of 10 generations of southerners, on my mother’s side, back to Jamestown. The South is a place behind the times – it runs slower. The South taught me tradition, storytelling, nostalgia, and preservation which are prevalent in my paintings. Returning to the South after traveling around the world, I am learning and becoming more aware about how systemically flawed our country is and I hope to be a better ally for finding solutions. I don’t yet know how this developing awareness might express its way into my art but I am reading books this summer about institutional racism. Most of my painting ideas can be traced back to what I am reading."

"These are images of works in progress in my studio. Some of these are from very complex collages and some from simpler. I think they reflect that struggle between maximalist and more minimal to compose."

"I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep"

"It occurred to me that being what they call 'colored,' being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage"

"I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along"

"I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist ... anything but a racist"

"I didn't care about being integrated or accepted"

"they were just tasting a little teeny bit of what was racism and fascism and the horror of what was happening in the country"

"If I could be - somebody could think of me and feel encouraged"

"I felt envious of what I thought was the male prerogative"

"The worries and fears about personal lacks are immobilizing and make me dream the dream too long"

"Feminine sensibilities are not being acknowledged, and we’ve allowed the antipeople to steal the children and are tolerating far too much: the assault on ourselves, the families of the world, permitting war and rape."

"More women are becoming enraged about these things and I think we’re on the verge of doing something about them"

"My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination"

"Staying on the path of something you’re trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life"

"We have to bring forward the graces in life and make them real"

"We have to institute democracy, which is still mostly an aspiration, and universal love, which is still unrealized"

"I dream of getting prisons off the stock exchange"

"It is a dastardly crime and an insult to the word democracy to make a commodity of jailing people."

"we gave ourselves permission to have other partners if we wished to"

"in a marriage loyalty and fidelity and trust cannot be compromised."