Women Born In The 1950s

"Not doing your best and putting the utmost into it was not acceptable,"

"we celebrate our absolute right to property enshrined in our constitution, we are mindful of the Palestinian people in the struggle for their right to live and prosper in the land of their birth. We commend our government and the people of South Africa for taking resolute action in support of the Palestinian cause."

"As this department, we can boast of having established a women in Human Settlements Task Team which comprises of women stakeholders within the human settlements value chain."

"to improve efficiencies in responding to disasters, human settlements emergencies response has been centralised at the national department, including policy changes that emphasize use of alternative building technologies to respond to disasters in rural areas."

"When we restore the dignity of our people through human settlements, we do not only deliver a house, but quality houses with norms and standards to support the needs of the community including persons with disabilities. Moreover, we deliver human settlements with social amenities."

"The overcrowding in inner cities, dilapidated, neglected and hijacked buildings as well as continued spread of informal settlements are as a direct result of the stubbornness of the inhumane heritage of the apartheid- era spatial planning."

"These are but not limited to; unblocking of blocked projects, upgrading of informal settlements, eradication of asbestos roofing and mud-houses, and finally the social housing programmes that are aimed at transforming the inner cities and locating our communities closer to economic opportunities."

"A new section, the Early Childhood Education Section, has been set up within the Ministry of Education to coordinate and guide the way forward for early childhood education in all schools, through the provision of training and other support for teachers who teach at that level."

"We are deeply concerned about the deterioration of human settlements programmes in the Gauteng metros. Specifically, the City of Tshwane continues to underperform in human settlements grants. In the past three financial years, the City continued to forfeit unspent funds to the Revenue Fund."

"The reinforcement is an integral part of the School Improvement Programme (SIP), designed to inspire better results from students and enhanced school performance all round during the school year."

"While noting the “tremendous gains” made in the battle against piracy, I emphasized that continued efforts, through such initiatives as the Contact Group for Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, currently chaired by the Seychelles, would be necessary to ensure safer oceans. As an island nation heavily dependent on the environment for its survival, the Seychelles was vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, and had been among the first 20 States to ratify the Paris Agreement."

"Other actions being undertaken to improve performances of students and schools alike for this academic year include the introduction of an end of cycle assessment, whereby groups of students will be tested in accordance with their grade every year, with the objective of detecting their limitations so as to improve on them."

"The ministry is also striving to meet its obligation and improve on support to schools through teaching and learning resources, by ensuring that all schools are provided with necessary and adequate equipment and supplies to accomplish all courses on their programmes of study."

"Incorporating a vulnerability index into development frameworks would allow a fairer measurement of economies than the traditionally emphasized GDP. Highlighting Sustainable Development Goal 14 on conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources, it was pivotal to the survival of small-island economies. I noted that illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing undercut development efforts and jeopardized the livelihoods of millions around the world."

"As a revolutionary party that stood the test of time and broke the jaws of colonialism, we will be heading into the elections as a united front and will continue to build the Namibian House"

"I express the desire to dedicate more time to family and personal projects and undertakings that had been put on hold since my appointment as Seychelles Permanent Representative to the United Nations in March 2012."

"Secondly, a profile of the competencies that a pupil should have acquired after each accomplished year of their childhood education has been prepared and presented to schools, in order to compare what students have actually picked up during the school year."

"Humanity was on the cusp of achieving the immeasurable in terms of making a true difference to all the world’s peoples. The Seychelles was proud to have achieved most of the targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals, and was determined to maintain that momentum to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. Much progress had been made, but there was still much to be done, the world would need to stand together in ensuring that strong action was backed by adequate financial support."

"Namibia brings a wealth of experience in coastal and maritime resources management, particularly in protecting our rich marine biodiversity"

"Our relationship has not only strengthened our maritime capabilities, but also enhanced our capacity for trade, security and cultural exchange"

"Our collective and primary objective is to ensure a landslide victory for the Swapo Party and its Presidential candidate, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah"

"Our cooperation is built on several key pillars, including emphasising the importance of shared knowledge and experience. Brazil has a long-standing tradition of naval excellence with a navy that has played a crucial role in international peacekeeping and humanitarian missions"

"A profile of students will also be kept and accompany them through the different school years up to Primary 2, so that teachers will at all time be able to match their capability with that of a typical student of their age, as detailed by the profile."

"It is therefore not surprising that the Namibian nation, judging from the numbers of members, supporters and sympathisers involved in the party’s recent campaign and recruitment activities, sees no hope in any other political formation other than Swapo"

"The party will therefore vigorously defend itself in any action that may be instituted against it"

"Let us go out there and mobilise our members, supporters, the young and the old. To march towards a decisive victory by getting registered as voters"

"Establishing a development bank is not a small endeavour which is why the leaders at the previous summit requested the ministers of finance to thoroughly investigate all the aspects around the possibility of forming such an institution."

"It is a work in progress as there are still many issues with respect to such a bank to sort out. One can expect further discussions and negotiations going forward."

"There are some hurdles, but these are being negotiated and I am confident that it will be resolved."

"Its aim is to provide additional and also niche financing where it is not available or forthcoming, notably for emerging markets and developing economies in sectors critical for attaining their developmental goals."

"My brothers and sisters, you have done a great job to come back to your party, the party of your ancestors. Mind you, it was here in Kavango by then that most of the liberation struggle stewards came from this region. Therefore, you have just done a good job to return to the party of your ancestors"

"You must not move out of your party; you must make sure at your section, branches and districts that you ask your leaders to provide you with the constitution of the party so that going forward, you adhere to the position of the Swapo Party"

"There are certain sectors which both partners have identified as strategic industries and they both have to tread carefully when negotiating these."

"All of you, please know that we have one task, and our task as Swapo Party is to defend our candidate, comrade Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, come 27 Novembe"

"Stop it. Leave our candidate. It must end in Otjiwarongo. You are busy discussing her and her vehicle. It must stop you witches. Leave the servant, who is here chosen by God and by the hand of man, to serve. Leave our candidate alone. Stop it with immediate effect"

"I want to tell you witches that it must stop here; it must come to an end. Leave the presidential candidate alone"

"It is difficult for one to ignore or distort the impressive achievements registered by the Swapo government in a country that suffered untold and despicable injustices perpetrated by successive colonial regimes"

"Leave the servant who is chosen by God and by men"

"We have to look at the genesis of the problem: One, education. Secondly is the slow growth of private sector because the civil service does not provide a lot of jobs. The jobs come from the private sector. But the private sector has not been growing as fast as we would have wanted."

"Stop it with immediate effect. It must be the last time I am hearing this"

"By reinforcing on early childhood education, the Ministry of Education is seeking to bridge the obvious link between early childhood, primary and secondary education, so as to further guarantee that the correlation between the different stages of education is given proper and earnest priority."

"I am really happy to say that we have made some progress on gender parity, starting with education. With the introduction of UPE [Universal Primary Education], we were able to achieve 50/50 percent enrollment of both boys and girls. But where we’ve got the challenge in UPE is the high school drop-out [rates] of girls due to poverty at home and due to some social problems. And the same extends to education in upper primary where the girls drop out for early marriages and to assist their mothers and aunties with household work and other things."

"At the university and the higher levels, I think we are doing much better because the enrolment of girls is 60 percent compared to boys at 40 percent. The Law School [at Makerere University] is a case in point. This has been achieved because of the affirmative action the Government of Uganda has put in place to uplift the girl child."

"Our women here [in Uganda] are quite enterprising but they lack the appropriate capital, they lack access to markets, and they lack access to collateral. This is because in Africa all property belongs to men so it’s very difficult for male spouses to allow them to use family collateral to borrow money [that can] help them to expand their businesses. So, here we need funding, which does not require the traditional collateral, for women to be able to grow their businesses."

"Youth unemployment is one of the most biting problems for our government today with a population of 57 percent of youths below the age of 20, and the number goes even slightly higher if you go up to the age of 30."

"The disguise I came back in is not the disguise that I then wore on a longer-term basis. The extent to which you can disguise yourself also depends partly on what you're doing it for, but also partly on how long the disguise lasts"

"Elections are at the heart of democracy to make them free and fair, it’s a body that has to have the highest ethical standards, impartial, fair… it needs the means it needs transparency and it needs to ensure that what it does have resonance"

"It became established in people's minds that I was hovering around somewhere in Zimbabwe, so by the time I was located in South Africa in 1987, my absence in areas where I had spent a lot of time before had already been explained away"

"Challenges with regard to participation and that’s very much in terms of youth. Secondly, there’s a big trust deficit generally in all state institutions and unfortunately, the Commission does not escape that and thirdly, the contestation, the emotion that is part of that contestation is a lot sharper. So because of those three things, the Commission has to take on board things that it may not have had to prioritise in the same way historically"

"Her mother died in her arms, her sister died in her arms, her brother was executed, and she was dislocated from her father. The whole trauma of that, I think, was ever-present. So much of her make-up, I believe, was coloured by that"