"We hope she will continue to be an inspiration to those looking to her as an example of a young woman determined to succeed in her chosen field. I am very happy about this"

"Nobody should be made to suffer in the way Caster was made to suffer in the past several months"

"There's also steady progress in the representation of women at senior levels of the public service"

"The objectives are to preserve and build on African women's strength and to leverage on global and regional political goodwill for the advancement of African women with a focus on youth and grass-roots women"

"Our country has taken a number of steps to mainstream gender perspectives in poverty-reduction strategies. These have led to the implementation of various income support programmes including development initiatives for rural women"

"There are many problems we are facing as female MPs of a certain age. We seem to be regarded as an aberration."

"We’re really happy with the high quality and diversity of the applicants for the 2024-25 Southern African public leadership programme"

"Parliament is now going to be a place where we get to be heard as well"

"Nothing can get done in the executive. The executive has no power unless it has got the votes of its colleagues as MPs in parliament"

"It happens all over the world, If it's not Julia Gillard or Hillary Clinton it's somebody else. But I don't consider any of those insults to be legitimate commentary on me or my character or my appearance"

"All of these things are coded insults designed to make me feel small. To me that's a signal that we're having a huge impact, that we're a threat, that we're a force to be reckoned with"

"I've experienced sexism of every different kind, from comments about my hair and my clothes to my body, to my age, to my stature"

"These are workers who have dedicated their lives to serve the poor and those who are sick but, at the end of it all, they continue struggling to make ends meet, as they are subjected to poverty that is akin to slavery,”"

"These workers are always used on an ad hoc basis and, despite their hard work and their need within the sector, they are never awarded permanent posts."

"The committee notes that this relates to one of the clauses that the President put on hold for three months. We look forward to the engagement on this but continue to call for the full implementation of the Bill."

"The committee calls on parents, communities, organisations, and schools to increase programmes and engagements on life skills to stem such behaviour. Raising well-rounded children is the responsibility of all of us."

"Considering the painful history of racism and discrimination in South Africa, our country has taken a zero-tolerance to such behaviour and utterances. We need urgent action on the matter."

"This learner was born in a free and democratic South Africa, so this is unexpected. It is shocking. It is disappointing. It is hurtful that he can spew such remarks. This needs the attention of authorities at the highest level. It cannot be tolerated.""

"‘I can’t make a comment. They must have been relevant or they would never have been written.They did not contribute towards peace, which is why she posed the question."

"I don’t want to comment on something that I haven’t done research on. I wouldn’t want to be influenced by any scholar"

"We have a rape culture in SA, and it not the fault of women or any victim. The narrative of this country has to change and men must take responsibility"

"Women and girls in SA live in perpetual fear, and this is not normal."

"There is absolutely no place in SA where women and girls are safe. We are not safe at home, in the car, public transport, at school, in the mall, in the post office or the club"

"Being an MP is the greatest honour of my life and being appointed the first female chief whip of the DA in parliament is a tremendous honour. I stand on the shoulders of giants and I dare not fail them"

"It has been a very difficult period for the DA and I have every intention to concentrate on steadying the ship and ensuring continued excellence in the DA parliamentary benches"

"Success can beget success, and celebrating at work helps to build momentum, improve morale, and make the hard times feel all the more worth it.”"

"On the 29th of May, the ANC will win overwhelmingly, and this is a promise we are making. It does not matter who [Zuma] did it or whether his move [MK Party] scared us and confused us."

"very worried” about the xenophobic attacks and, to rectify the situation, President Cyril Ramaphosa had apologised to Zimbabweans during former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's funeral"

"We can’t blame the problems of South African society on the ANC. Criminality has been in SA for more than three centuries, especially after the colonialists came and brought crime from Europe to Africa, so you can't say the ANC brought criminality"

"Part of the challenge we have is that part of that is actually government property, which was for ensuring that there are health facilities nearby for the president to be able to be looked after"

"We are in a moment where we are reflecting soberly. This is something touched upon on the road, get out of caucus room because South Africa is much bigger than the caucus room"

"When I took a decision at the point at which the Constitutional Court had said it is up to Parliament to decide whether the method of voting on a particular time, in a particular motion against the president whether it should be private or it should be open. And I said it should be open. People were surprised because I was supposedly this stooge of Jacob Zuma"

"It was on the basis of the house rules that I was implementing decisions. I have no regrets"

"I did not protect Zuma] because he was a person I worked with in my political party or that he was perhaps an ANC person"

"Why have I not engaged with him? We are not friends; we were comrades who worked together at a particular time"

"The South African Renewables Initiative’s focus on innovative ways to finance such scaling-up as well as how to ensure that the local economic benefits will be maximised is a good example of how transitioning to a low carbon economy is good for development and job creation in a developing economy."

"There is also the need to finalise the modalities of a system to ensure transparency in the mitigation actions parties are undertaking. Finally, we need strong elements of adaptation, the Adaptation Committee, a work programme on loss and damage amongst others."

"We need to achieve a balanced package, and these are the critical elements. We need agreement on the future legal form, and we also need to ensure progress on long-term finance. Putting the Green Climate Fund in place is one important element."

"There is a huge risk that Parties will agree on key issues, such as the legal issue, this involves agreement to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and for WWF we also would like to see countries agree on a mandate under the Convention track for negotiations to conclude a legally-binding agreement to be concluded no later than 2015 for all Parties."

"None of that mischief can ever be attributed to the ANC as learning that takes place within the ANC would never produce such ill-discipline. At committee level, work gets achieved as all political parties participate robustly."

"Though I am new to that regional office, what I have already gotten involved in is mediating and being the bridge between the youth and traditional leaders in the region as this has been a consistently thorny issue where politics intersect with traditional authority."

"I engage rural women on their struggles as women because during my tenure as chairperson of the Multi-Party Women’s Caucus, I and the leadership of the ANC in the Eastern Cape managed to address the challenge of "ukuthwala” (forced marriage of young girls) where at one point we managed to return young girls who had been taken from Flagstaff."

"I am more interested in individual style rather than fashion, if fashion in this instance is related to the latest trend"

"My work engages with contrasts, visually and thematically. I think this is also one of the elements FIELDS picked up from my work. For the collaboration the use of high contrasting colours was key and using a design element that allowed the theme to play out in jacquard knit."

"Visual research is part of my practice, it is a methodology I use to inform and shape my work so it is, therefore, a primary language in my work."

"The design borrows and references past and current cultural practices in a multi dimensional way. Presentation comfort and maybe discomfort."

"I have memories of my childhood dreaming, drawing and always building like any other child."

"It was only after I won a primary school art competition that I saw my interest as something more than a hobby. This tiny win inspired me to see myself as an artist one day even though I had little understanding of what that meant. The professional part comes later as the vision becomes more tangible."

"On our side, assisting farmers with inputs so that on a small-scale level they can produce for their household is one of the bedrocks that support food security."