All Quotes

"I started my degree in 2021, so it’s taken me four years to finish. The reason being that I had both my children during this time. At no point did Henley put me under pressure to finish my course at a time when it was literally an impossibility"

"I love the freedom to choose what I want to do, the freedom that comes with owning my time, while still being able to be present for my young family"

"My passion lies in cultivating a safe, loving and supportive home life for my children. One that I dreamed of as a child. In business my passion is to grow a beauty business by women for women, that offers simple beauty solutions that fit into their lifestyles. One of my biggest passions is always to finish what I start. It’s one of the key drivers that have gotten me to where I am today"

"Life is an accumulation of all our experiences. So I would tell her to explore more. To be more inquisitive. I would tell her to travel more, to immerse herself in different cultures at a time in her life where she is still unencumbered by the responsibilities of adulthood"

"Go for it! Don’t tell yourself this is not a good time because then you’ll always have an excuse to put it off. And if you’re worried about life getting in the way while you’re studying, don’t be. This is truly a flexible MBA programme that works with your goals in mind and considers your lifestyle. If you are committed, you will make it work"

"academic, political and work experience credentials combined are needed in our leadership now not apartheid struggle heroes"

"Give us a dream and a strategy to believe in followed by quality representatives based on merits to turn that vision into reality. Remember Obama's ‘Yes We Can’ campaign. I’m not American but he sold a new America to me. We really need this kind of energy in our country"

"What’s really lacking in the political parties opposing the current leading party is a lack of effective direction. I don’t know what they stand for and how they wish to achieve what they say they want to achieve. All I know is that they hate the ANC and that’s not good enough"

"South Africa weighs heavy on my heart. One of the most beautiful countries in the world — the food, weather, people, diverse cultures, parties, experience. I don’t understand how we have fallen so bad. The quality of life is horrendous! People are suffering, hustling day to day"

"It is much easier to start a business conversation when people recognise who you are. Of course there will be skeptics who question your intellectual range and ability to perform. It is how you navigate the polarities"

"It is tough gaining the trust of clients as a new entrant and as an entrepreneur; one needs to find outlets to sustain cash flow when the chips are down. Fortunately, I have had the luck of balancing my business ventures with freelance work opportunities in modelling and television"

"There was a time in my life when I was working in retail because I thought showbiz wasn’t happening for me and I had invested so much. I worked for like, a year, before I was hired at Gagasi FM. Folding clothes in retail is not easy, but all of that builds you"

"She believed in me so much and could see that being in the public eye was something I enjoyed. From singing to dancing and doing drama, I was always that kid"

"It was a beautiful story about being lesbian in an African community like KwaMashu. I enjoyed playing that character and it was out of my comfort zone,"

"Noxolo and I had coaching lessons and counselling. It helped a lot having to understand that these are people’s lives and they sometimes get killed based on whom they choose to love. Portraying those characters was serious for us."

"I grew up in court. I knew the justice system. Boys will be boys was the judgement and I knew the judgement before it was even given."

"Being arrested was a blessing in disguise."

"I think there is a need for people in the public eye to take a stand against crime, violence, gangsterism and other sensitive issues that affect us as black people, especially the youth."

"I’m an actor with a purpose. My intention is to open the eyes of young boys who want to travel down the road of gangsterism."

"My message in my art is crime does not pay. I like roles that emphasise the gospel that prison is not paradise and crime does not pay."

"During those days, we survived on the principles of ubuntu. Money was not as important as it is today."

"I draw a line between acting and real life."

"I don’t think it is ever difficult to stand up for what is right. I think that for a lot of people, it is difficult to make peace with the reactions of other people. Morally, we know what is right, but we are always consumed with the opinions of other people."

"That is a very good question! Miseducation does explore a lot of manipulation, and to some degree, yeah, that is the truth about humans. Humans are inherently selfish, and you are selfish towards your own gains and the gains of your interests, whether it is you personally, your circle, or your family"

"The one thing that you can do is maybe right the wrong when you have the opportunity to do it, but to be cancelled because someone did something before you just doesn’t make sense."

"How much of yourself are you willing to lose just to win?"

"You do not lose sight of what you believe in, you do lot lose sight of the goal. You drown out the voices, because there are bigger battles to fight."

"Tingin ko magiging unfair para sa city if gagamitin ko lang pagiging mayor bilang jumpoff point. Hindi ako magiging effective mayor kung ang iniisip ko lang ay yung 2028. (It would be unfair for Naga if I will use my position as jumpoff point in the 2028 elections. I will not be effective as Mayor if all I would think of is the next elections.)"

"It is a clear mindset shift from producing job-seeking graduates towards enterprising and job-creating graduates"

"I did not want to be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency"

"There is also the right to my good name"

"co-operatives are a viable business model, both in terms of providing livelihoods, food; housing, access to credit facilities etc; as well to grow and transform the economy"

"We don’t want a finger pointing exercise"

"we especially need to think about the economic empowerment of women through co-operatives, not because it is women’s month, but because women own only 20% of the economy, and our economy will never grow unless we address economic exclusion and barriers to entry."

"Aviation is one of those industries that have not had black participation in business for ages"

"In every part of the world, the church and the state co-exist"

"When the church is deeply rooted in the community and its membership operates as public servants in every facet of life, our societies will be transformed for the better."

"Everything rises and falls on leadership"

"If mercy rewrote the future of Nineveh, we as the government of South Africa believe that the future of South Africa can also be rewritten"

"Its about time that churches rise up and take their rightful position in the society, to become the church Christ expect it to be. For the time is closer until the coming of Jesus Christ and the church must be ready."

"Together, motorists, passengers and pedestrians, we can put a stop to this. If we all work together and obey all the rules of the road, without exception – we can stop this carnage on our roads"

"As a transport family, we are truly the heartbeat of the economy."

"that transport networks are the arteries of the economy, moving people to the workplace and goods to the marketplace"

"Indeed winning is not always a victory and Losing is not always a defeat"

"good political relations with other countries South Africa has need to translate into economic benefit for our country"

"Thus, at a time when some countries in the North are dreaming up schemes to build physical walls to separate neighbours and raising barbed wire fences to keep people out, we are standing in a small village in rural Southern Africa to celebrate the construction of a road and bridge that connects communities and opens up opportunities for people"

"This road, bridge and border post stand as tangible examples of what have been achieved when neighbours in the region decide to work together rather than putting up barriers"

"history is on our side and that we shall rise to the challenge of transforming this sector"

"As government also, we have not created enough platform for every one of us to make their voice heard and their effort galvanized"

"We have come to see enforcement and education as tools and functions that we can invoke at one point and revoke at another, leaving us with a culture that says; to us life matters on some days and not necessarily on others"