"Just yesterday I received a message from someone who attached a YouTube video, asking if I was the same person as in the video. Then I was only 14 years old, when I did a short film for the Zimbabwe International Film Festival, titled ‘Who’s In Charge’, and I had almost forgotten about the short film. So you can see my marriage with film and television did not begin with Big Brother Africa, as some would want to think, it comes from years back."

"I have grown as a person in the two years since Big Brother as I have been educated a lot about entertainment, especially across the continent, as I got to travel immensely. It started with the fun we had in the house, it was a lot of fun and experience and when we were done with the show we would invite each other over and that broadened my horizon a lot."

"Tamy is very focused and quick to learn and this will obviously make us want her for more projects."

"The director approached me at the NAMA Awards in 2017 saying I was the suitable candidate for one of the characters in his film and he had me in mind for a while."

"Late 2017 I went for the auditions and l did not hesitate to go as it was a great opportunity for me."

"To be honest, I wanted to be Miss World or the next Naomi Campbell. I held on to the dream for a while (laughs)."

"I grew up in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia and then went to school in the UK. I was a complete introvert, and a book worm who adored all things fashion. I was also a bit of a tomboy, so I spent my days reading, perfecting my strut (secretly in my room of course), and loads of time racing my bicycle with my brother."

"Wow. I have never been stretched so much in my life! It was testing and stressful but it was also so much fun. I’ve always been a loner, so being in a confined space with strangers was far from easy. But it was a great time to learn about human behavior, and of course to learn about myself. I think I surprised myself everyday!"

"Never! I never realized how much attention the show would attract. It’s one thing to feel it in my home country, but I’m always mesmerized when I’m at OR Tambo or Lagos airport and the immigration officers ask to take pictures with me. Nothing can prepare you for that."

"The literal meaning of immortality is to be a god and immortality is to have your story told again and again and again, forever."

"Acting is the only profession where equal opportunities do not count and where discrimination is part of the process of getting the job."

"I think that you have to differentiate between talent and casting and not let the fact that you’re not cast for something make that mean a judgment on your talent because it isn’t. You have to separate them."

"Doing the classics is a very muscular, a very athletic undertaking, you have to be very fit for it."

"I think whatever race, age or background that you are from you can understand the torment of love and the sacrifice of love and the competitiveness of love and the absolute agony and despair when someone chooses their own ambition and destiny over being with you which is sort of a greater betrayal as it’s not even another person that they have chosen it’s themselves that they are choosing over you."

"We take clothes for granted. What I started to feel when wearing Wandi's clothes – the girl clothes – the soft fabric of dresses and feminine underwear made me automatically click into myself. But I had to remember that I'm still this character"

"You also get to see we are represented in our clothing, our hairstyles, different images, different ideas of what it means to not only be beautiful but what it means to be a star within your own right. ‘Do I wear my weave, am I black enough, do I wear my fro, am I bold enough and do I wear my braids, what does that mean? What do I think of myself’ and so all of those things to be seen and celebrated by this beautiful, talented people was one of the most honourable and glorious things for me to experience and be a part of"

"One of the first things I thought of was how exciting it was to have an African story that follows a lead female action hero when for a long time, my go to for an action reference was Lara Croft–Angelina Jolie. I just always pictured Angelina Jolie, I never pictured an action hero with an afro. I actually coined the term, ‘Aflo’ because she walks with it like a halo. It’s so powerful she is our African angel superhero"

"It is obviously unbelievable, completely surreal but also absolutely humbling. I can’t believe that I am so lucky, but also I sit in total gratitude for sitting, arriving and being at a place that proves that all the work, all the dedication, and all of the persistence has paid off"

"It's such a deliciously groundbreaking character that has heightened my level of appreciation for performance. I find it very honourable and moving that members of the LGBTI community come to me and tell me that this story is being told so truthfully"

"When people come to me and tell me that I feel proud to have done my job the correct way and raise awareness"

"Yes, I'm a method actor. I take my work very serious, I go very deep. Physically, what I do when I play the boy character is that I walk into my dressing room and my chest is strapped."

"I'm a straight woman who has now played a transsexual character, and was able to fool you as possibly a heterosexual man. Don't ever let your sexuality stop you from being whatever you want to be, whether is in storytelling or real-life"

"The biggest misconception about me is definitely that I'm a man. I'll state that I'm proudly a heterosexual woman"

"When I read the brief initially I remember feeling and I think this is something that happens when you finally align with your purpose and your calling."

"I don’t ever have to take off my top (to confirm my gender) because people stare at my breasts anyway. All the time. It has really empowered me and my body because I often have to say to people ‘you know you’re staring right?’."

"As an individual, I have always have a passion to assist and mentor the girl-child. “I will keep on doing my best through Vabvana Trust as we seek to change people’s lives."

"I just want to walk my path but I don’t mind having him around me."

"Selmor has been exceptionally helpful as we build up the new Old Mutual Amazing Voices talent search initiative, designed to platform a whole new generation of singers, so her role in working with the aspiring competitors has been enormously beneficial."

"As such, the hard-working diva, through her three-year-old Vabvana Trust, has since stepped up efforts to bring smiles on the poor"

"She said as an ambitious woman she learnt to stand on her own feet and to leave a life independent of her father."