All Quotes

"Any athlete will tell you that. It’s all about sacrifices and hard work and dealing with disappointment and all kinds of failures."

"Most of all what has kept me alive is my passion and love for the game."

"Without this sport I am not sure where life would’ve taken me. Everything I am and have achieved is through this beautiful game."

"I started playing from a young age with the boys who moulded me into a strong and bold woman. They shaped me into what I am today and to stand out among the rest."

"Women are powerful and strong."

"I believe that Africa has quality and phenomenal talent that clubs abroad are benefitting from because of the lack of high-level competitions in our respective countries."

"Football is my life and I wouldn't want to live without it. Every day is an opportunity to get better, whether you are injured and you want to heal to get better, or you don't have confidence and you need to be that better player."

"I just take every day as a new opportunity for me to be a better player and give the best I can towards the game."

"I want to help develop young girls -- and not necessarily [only] young girls, but players in general, and just share my expertise and my knowledge that I have gained over the years to other female football players."

"Art has always been a big part of my life, I can always remember sitting down and painting and drawing with my sisters, and art would always be spoken about. When I was studying the IB I then realised that all I wanted to do was make art and that’s when I decide to take a gap year and then apply for City and Guilds."

"I am really inspired by Flora Yuknovich’s work, I think as soon as I arrived at City and Guilds and saw her paintings I feel in love with them. I am also really inspired and fascinated with botanical studies and love visiting Kew Gardens. Within my work I try to bring the loose, bold and dynamic style of Flora’s work alongside the minute details found in floral studies, whilst recreate and transcribing classical mythological paintings."

"This year I have been looking the play Antigone by Sophocles. At the beginning of my project I tried to find as many classical painting representations of the play and then I work from these paintings to create my own work."

"I am really interested in the beauty of these paintings and the dark tales that they often depict, and this battle between aesthetic beauty against the dark truth of human behaviours."

"I have just completed my degree series which I have been working on in lockdown. I have really enjoyed making it, however my dream series at the moment is just being able to make work in a large studio where I can work to any scale and have space to stand back. Lockdown had really shown my the importance of having a studio and the space to look at your work."

"When I paint I listen to the Harry Potter audiobooks on repeat."

"Whaaaaa I’m not sure, on my gap year I worked on a super yacht which was a crazy, exhausting and bind blowing all at the same time."

"The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, I am obsessed with it."

"My work is inspired by Renaissance period paintings depicting Greek mythology. I am currently focusing on The Odyssey by Homer. The Renaissance paintings represent the drama within these stories, with dynamic compositions and rich colours. I use a range of different paintings depicting the myth to create a collage on Photoshop, breaking down the classical structure and the figuration; creating contrasts between scale, composition, figuration and abstraction. From them, I create large-scale paintings constructed in layers using a variety of mediums; oil, gouache and acrylic."

"The paintings start with a layer of gouache, blocking in colour and mapping out movement. Then acrylic paint is used for the floral patterns to intensify the placement of colours and black/grey structural lines breaking through the work. For some time now, I have been developing the use of organic floral forms to apply a different painting language when recreating these classical paintings. I am interested in breaking down the barriers between the decorative and the fine arts. So, rather than purely decorative, I see the floral and feminine forms as a different language of abstraction. In this layer, the acrylic is built up and overlaps with changes in scale to create depth. In the final layer oil paint is used, which is applied in glazes to push back areas and for the floral patterning. The oils create a unique, opaque effect as they sit on the surface."

"There is need for unity and strategy planning. I believe we must return to the principles of inclusivity and cooperation following what we have been through and the person to take us there is this one."

"Balopi ke yo, are a re yeng kwa mewa yarona e tla bonang boikhutso teng."

"I must admit that I am aware of a couple of errors which led to unease within our party as a result of matters which many feel were not appropriately handled by our leadership. It is true that there had been pressing issues where some people were seriously affected. This happens and is experienced everywhere. However, going forward let us unite even more and all agree that in the future we will not see a repetition of what was encountered by some of us."

"Let us come together more than we ever did bearing in mind that we aim to win the upcoming elections. Remember, our party has quite a large following, but if we waste time influencing or fuelling unnecessary fights internally, we would have given the opposition ammunition to oust us."

"They [opposition leaders] just want to badmouth the party."

"Are they not enjoying the country's riches?"

"The president wants to leave this country on a trajectory in terms of values, in terms of destiny, which will not be reversible"

"Anyone who wants to contest us, feel free"

"We need to address the issue of international re-engagement, corruption and indiscipline, we need an investor-friendly business environment, and finally we need to ensure credibility in the conduct of the 2018 elections"

"We could have had a considerable amount of investment, but for the existence of that act"

"I believe the attempt to impose it was an attempt to legalize the theft of assets of companies, and the warning that anybody trying to start a new company would face the same penalty has been more than enough to stop anybody coming to the country with new investment funds. So the removal of the act is what we are now hoping for"

"The Olympics proved to be a huge public relations exercise. Olympics don’t sell as football. It meant taking austerity measures."

"You could pay staff for a month and go for three months without pay. I cut the entitlements of the SG. The position attracted huge benefits. I postponed plans to purchase a new Mercedes for the SG, removed the travelling from first class to business class and moved out of a mansion to an apartment whose rental was one fifth of what the mansion cost."

"You needed a different person to implement the scheme."

"The best broadcaster still alive is my neighbour Batho Molema. He has absolutely no idea how I hold him in high esteem. Molema is a successful man in his own right. He was a pioneer."

"We have for example the SABC which has less stigma than ourselves but it is government controlled. We are at a stage where we should also know that the public is fairly sophisticated and so unless we project a more transparent image of both radio and television, news that come out of these media will always be regarded as propaganda."

"When I ran the Round Table show there was no interference on my show. As the former director I never experienced any interference from anyone although I was called a puppet. Everyone called me the chief censor of news. I didn’t blame them because I was 100 percent owned by the government,"

"I am not in a hurry to publish, but I have already written some 400 pages of non fiction. It is not a kiss and tell story, but it is about my experiences in life as a journalist, as I traveled around the world. It will take time to finish it because it is research-based, which is quite demanding."

"Football is my world – without it, there’s little else for me. My passion for the game is boundless, and I aim to keep playing for as long as I can. That’s how deep my love for football runs."

"It is about my vast experiences, my out look on African politics such as in Senegal, where I once worked. As a journalist, I would also air my views about journalism in Botswana, its growth, especially the private media. If you travel around the world you experience situations, it would be about what I was exposed to, the events I watched. The book will have a lot of issues on politics, the economy, even on cattle."

"I am saying if we are getting ZWL$7000, it should be US$7000 and if we are getting 20 litres worth of coupons it should be 20 litres in US Dollars"

"On a point of privilege Hon Speaker, it is said half a loaf is better than nothing"

"I would like to appreciate the salary we are getting but if you convert the salary we are getting per month, it amounts to US$170 and as an MP you are expected to do everything from that US$170 including looking after your family, servicing the vehicle and everything"

"The Divine Impulse—it’s always safe to follow it"

"I will be asking them to waste their vote. It would have been nice to have an African (FIFA) president though, but I think it’s too late for him,"

"He is an ambitious fellow, but I don’t think he was really passionate about sports."

"Be ready to live up to the challenge and demonstrate your strength"

"Surround yourself with people who always uplift you and push you to challenge yourself."

"Just do it"

"Failure does not define you, what matters is how you get up and respond to the challenge"

"Alumnus Jeremiah Thoronka makes Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 list"