I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.
Sport has the power to change the world.
The overwhelming majority of women accept the patriarchy and protect it. Traditionally, the violated wife offloads her aggression onto the daughter-in-law. Men dominate women through the agency of women themselves.
To those who oppose us, we say, ‘Strike the woman, and you strike the rock.’
It is only when all black groups, join hands and speak with one voice that we shall be a bargaining force which will decide its own destiny.
We have no guns – we have only stones, boxes of matches and petrol. Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mindsets of the youth of today.
I will not allow the selfless efforts of my husband and his friends to be abandoned. I will continue the struggle for a free and equal South Africa.
I’m not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.
It was in the townships where we shed so much blood. Nothing could have been achieved without the sacrifice of the people. Black people.
If you are to free yourselves you must break the chains of oppression yourselves. Only then can we express our dignity, only when we have liberated ourselves can we cooperate with other groups. Any acceptance of humiliation, indignity or insult is acceptance of inferiority.
There is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known.
They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become!
I cannot forgive him [Nelson Mandela] for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize with his jailer De Klerk. Hand in hand they went. Do you think De Klerk released him from the goodness of his heart? He had to. The times dictated it, the world had changed.
I believe something is very wrong with the history of our country and how we have messed up the African National Congress.
