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# Mimi Kalinda

Mimi Kalinda, originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda and raised in South Africa, is the Group CEO and Co-founder of Africa Communications Media Group, a pan African public relations and communications agency based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Kalinda also serves as the Director of Global Communications for Innovations for Poverty Action headquartered in Washington, DC.

## Quotes

* I had to make a decision about whether I really wanted to be a lawyer or to pursue media.
** "How Storytelling Can Drive Your Path to Success, with Professor Mimi Kalinda", Uncover IE (December 18,2023)
* I work with leaders from all walks of life. The goal is to help them understand the power of personal narratives and organizational narratives too.
** "How Storytelling Can Drive Your Path to Success, with Professor Mimi Kalinda", Uncover IE (December 18,2023)

### "Mimi Kalinda - Living her passion for a better Africa" (2023)

    "Mimi Kalinda - Living her passion for a better Africa", Bizcommunity (May 31, 2023)
* The more I watched television, the more I understood that this thing actually shapes the world that we live in.
* I made a decision very early on that I was going to use my career in media and storytelling for good, so for me it is about the impact of the work that we have done.
* 1994 was the most impactful year for me. The country was transitioning to democracy and because I had become such a fan of television, the psychology of the media became obvious to me even at that age.
* That’s when I thought, media is what I will do, but for good. If there are more of us doing good, with this platform and this tool, maybe by changing mindsets and getting people to see the similarities between themselves rather than the differences, then what kind of world could we build.
# Antjie Krog

Antjie Krog (born 23 October 1952) is a South African poet, academic, and writer. In 2004, she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape.

## Quotes

* I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.
* And everyone wants to know: Who? Why? The victims ask the hardest of all the questions: How is it possible that the person I loved so much lit no spark of humanity in you?
* By not dealing with past human rights violations, we are not simply protecting the perpetrators' trivial old age ; we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
* It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.
* I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.
** Best Antjie Krog Quotes (of All Time). Pepquotes.
# Laura Wolvaardt

Laura Wolvaardt (born 26 April 1999) is a South African cricketer who currently plays for Western Province, Adelaide Strikers, Gujarat Giants, Manchester Originals and South Africa.

## Quotes

* It's a massive honour to be offered this position as captain for the next two tours,
* It's something that I have always aspired to do, having played in this team for a couple of years. Having more of a leadership role is something I’ve wanted to take on. It'll help me as a cricketer and learning to think as a captain on the field will hopefully help my batting as well.
* I'm very excited to be able to contribute in another way, too, and not just in batting. It still feels surreal at the moment, but it will all become more real when I meet up with the team in Pakistan.
* What I can bring to the role is the experience that I have in the side. I've been playing international cricket since I was 16 years old, I know quite a lot of players in the circuit and I've been playing in the leagues as well, so I've played a lot of cricket in recent years and hopefully, I'm able to use that experience and the knowledge to my advantage when I captain the team.
* It is very new to me, but I am keen to learn and do everything that I can to do well in the position. I am lucky that I have a couple of senior players within the squad around me as well, who would be able to help me and guide me if I do need help along the way
** Laura Wolvaardt announced as new Proteas women's interim captain news24, 24 August 2023 By Nicolette Lategan
# Lara Logan

Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971) is a South African-born television and radio journalist and war correspondent. Logan began her career working for South African news organizations in the 1990s. Her reports concerning the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, led to her being hired as a correspondent for CBS News in 2002, eventually becoming Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent.

## Quotes

* You only have your word The physical wounds heal. You don’t carry around the evidence the way you would if you had lost your leg or your arm in Afghanistan.
** 28 April 2011 interview with Briant Stelter in New York Times article
* When someone says I was merely groped, I don't forget. And I don't forgive that the truth would be adjusted and then rewritten over time and eventually lost.
** 15 April 2020 interview with Newsmax quoted by People Magazine
* Darwin was hired by somebody to come up with a theory [...] Does anyone know who employed Darwin, Where Darwinism comes from? Look it up; the Rothschilds. It goes back to 10 Downing street. The same people who employed Darwin and his theory of evolution and so on and so on.
** And We Know podcast, as cited in "Fox news host implies theory of evolution is a lie funded by Jews 'who employed Darwin'" The Jewish Chronicle (March 30, 2022)
* God believes in sovereignty and national identity and the sanctity of family, and all the things that we’ve lived with from the beginning of time. And he knows that the open border is Satan’s way of taking control of the world through all of these people who are his stooges and his servants.
* And they may think that they're going to become gods. That's what they tell us...You know, the ones who want us eating insects, cockroaches and that while they dine on the blood of children? Those are the people, right? They’re not going to win. They’re not going to win.
** Interview with Eric Bolling on Newsmax (October 20, 2022), as reported by The Hill and The Guardian (October 21, 2022)
** Newsmax said it had "no plans" to interview Logan again, and distanced the channel from her comments. By "open border", Logan means the Southern United States.
* If you want to know why it's called social media, [...] I’ll tell you why: Because Karl Marx was hired by Henry Rothschild, by the Rothschild family, to develop a system of social control. So when you see social, it is a form of control—that’s all it is. Social media is a form of controlling us all.
** At the inaugural meeting of the Gillespie County chapter of Moms for Liberty in Fredericksburg, Texas (February 27, 2023), as cited in "A Star Reporter's Break with Reality" The Atlantic (June 12, 2023)

## About Lara Logan

* There’s a code of silence about it that I think is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break
** 28 April 2011 by Jeff Fager
* Logan said she was separated from her handlers and then assaulted by a mob of men who ripped off her clothes and groped her.
** 2 May 2014 by Joe Hogan in NYmag article
# Makhosazane Masilela

Makhosazane Christine Masilela is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature since 2019. She was appointed Speaker of the Provincial Legislature in March 2021.

## Quotes

* “We are therefore challenged by the generation of 1976, as this law-making body, to transform through democratic means the institutions of power in our society that continue to resist and reproduce inequality and social difference."
* "As an activist legislature, our immediate task is to refashion and reengineer all our efforts to ensure clear government response to these pressing challenges."
* She also stated that the legislature would continue to involve the public in the processes and programmes of the legislature through public hearings, petition processes, sector parliaments, sittings of the house and initiatives such as Taking the Legislature to the People."
* "In light of the financial constraints and budget cuts faced by the legislature, we shall continue with more cost-curtailment measures and a reprioritization of programmes,”
** Speaker of provincial legislature tables policy and budget speech, by Mpumalanga News, June 18, 2021, Retrieved 10/11/2023
# Lesego Tlhabi

Lesego Tlhabi (born 13 December 1988) is a South African writer and comedian best known for creating the character Coconut Kelz.

## Quotes

* We were some of the experimental kids of the new rainbow nation and we battled a lot
* I think it gave me my voice because I learned very quickly there isn’t a lot of help. We learned how to speak up for ourselves and how to identify micro-aggressions.
* I think it’s easy to see when someone says the k-word or when someone is outwardly racist. Micro-aggressions are very difficult to pick up on.
* That’s what I try to do with Kelz – expose the racism that doesn’t sound like racism.
* I was like, if we are your friends and went to the same schools, why are these issues not important to you?
* Because you will speak up about rhinos or puppies – of course you should – but why can’t you speak up about black people?
* When you go to certain schools and live a certain life, you’re going to have blind spots. Kelz helps me identify my own blind spots
* I understand being the first generation of black people who kind of made it out, my parents were very nervous about acting.
* The thing that helped most of their peers get out was business, medicine and law. And there weren’t a lot of artists in their spaces who were able to make the money they made and give their children what they gave their children.
* When I lived in South Africa, I was very nervous if people would laugh at me instead of with me.
* I’m not thin. Being in this industry and being told ‘it’s difficult to imagine you in any role because you’re not thin’ was quite frustrating.
* If you’re a chubby or plus-size girl or whatever you want to call it, you’re the comically funny friend. You’re always going to be that friend in the corner who’s like, ‘girrrl’ or whatever sassy little comment. It’s irritating.
* I’ve seen these people in the ANC who just don’t care about the issues that affect less privileged people because they don’t have to care,” Lesego says.
* I think the ANC can feature in those things even if they are made up of black people
** From Coconut Kelz to queen of the bake-off: Lesego Tlhabi's star continues to rise News24, 31 March 2023 by Melon Radebe

## References

* ↑ Nkanjeni, Unathi (13 December 2019). "Redi Tlhabi to stepdaughter Coconut Keltz: 'You have been nothing but love to me'". Sunday Times. South Africa. Retrieved 25 May 2020

## External Links

Lesego Tlhabi channel on YouTube
Coconut Kelz on Twitter
# Hildah Magaia

Hildah Tholakele Magaia (born 16 December 1994) is a South African soccer player who plays as a striker for South Korean WK League club Sejong Sportstoto WFC and the South Africa women's national team.

## Quotes
### "Banyana Banyana star Hildah Magaia on being called South Africa's 'breadwinner': 'I have to provide bread for the nation'" (2023)

    "Banyana Banyana star Hildah Magaia on being called South Africa's 'breadwinner': 'I have to provide bread for the nation'" by Michaelson Gumede, Aug 02, 2023, Retrieved 15/11/2023
* They call me the 'Breadwinner', so without the breadwinner there is no bread, I had to provide the bread for the nation.
* I will be able to do everything for my mother because I’m the one who’s taking care of her. I’m the breadwinner, so I will be doing everything for my mother.
* It really means a lot especially knowing that we were so close to going home but it really means a lot. It is an emotional one personally because it is my first World Cup. It is really an emotional one, I do not want to lie but it’s all God’s glory for me. It means I will be able to help my family.
# Mandisa Mfeka

Mandisa Mfeka is a South African pilot. She is known to be the first black female combat pilot in South Africa.

## Quotes

* When you set a goal, and you follow it with a plan, eventually, you start attracting the scenarios that enable you to get closer to that goal. Before you know it, you achieve what you set out.
** https://www.sacap.edu.za/blog/management-leadership/women-to-celebrate-10-inspiring-south-african-women/ SACAP ( August 12, 2020).
* When I was in grade 10, doing research on careers in maths and science, I came across an advert by the South African Air Force, looking for pilots. That's when I realised that this is my opportunity. This is what I want to do.
** https://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/466222/she-s-a-fighter-pilot-mandisa-mfeka-opens-up-about-her-lifelong-dream CAPETALK (February 8,2023).
* There is a certain level of excitement that comes with flying something fast and manoeuvrable and is able to do those acrobatic manoeuvres.
** https://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/466222/she-s-a-fighter-pilot-mandisa-mfeka-opens-up-about-her-lifelong-dream CAPETALK (February 8,2023)
* As I turned a page, I saw a recruitment article by the air force. My grades were really good at school and I met the entry requirements. I was thrilled.
** https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-05-27-four-things-you-need-to-know-about-sas-first-black-female-fighter-pilot-mandisa-mfeka/ TimesLIVE (May 27, 2019).
* The combat pilots are the first to engage any enemy infringement.
** https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-05-27-four-things-you-need-to-know-about-sas-first-black-female-fighter-pilot-mandisa-mfeka/ TimesLIVE (May 27, 2019).
* When we did our basic military training it was tough, you get trained physically. We ate proteins mostly because you must endure long distances, you must be agile, strong, quick thinking.
** https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-05-27-four-things-you-need-to-know-about-sas-first-black-female-fighter-pilot-mandisa-mfeka/ TimesLIVE (May 27, 2019)
* We used to claim that the sky’s the limit, but by being in the sky we are already defining what the limit is and limiting how far we can go.
** https://goodnewsdaily.co.za/2020/10/27/vw-partners-with-black-ballerina-and-female-combat-pilot-to-launch-campaign-about-shattering-stereotypes/ goodnewsdaily ( October 27,2020)
# Adriana Marais

Adriana Marais (born August 15, 1983) is a South African theoretical physicist, technologist and advocate for off-world exploration. She is a director of the Foundation for Space Development Africa, an organisation aiming to send Africa's first mission to the Moon, the Africa2Moon Project. She is the founder of Proudly Human, an initiative of which is the Off-World Project, a series of habitation experiments in Earth's most extreme environments. For her research in quantum biology and the origins of life, she received awards including the 2015 L'Oreal-UNESCO International Rising Talent Award.

## Quotes

* I feel that many of us are often not open to seeing the bigger picture. Perhaps, in this era of information inundation, we prefer or feel more comfortable forgetting how much we still don’t know.
** [https://tedxcapetown.org/videos/watch-space-adriana-marais TedxCapeTown (15 August 2015)
* I would like to point out that all the information we have gathered, all the observations we have made, have resulted from exploring the unknown.
** [https://tedxcapetown.org/videos/watch-space-adriana-marais TedxCapeTown (15 August 2015)
* Life on Mars will be a precious and fragile resource, and I believe morality there will be defined by a deep appreciation for life and all that’s needed to sustain it, and I believe that this attitude will filter down to Earth.
** [https://tedxcapetown.org/videos/watch-space-adriana-marais TedxCapeTown (15 August 2015)

## External links

* Official website
# Mohale Mashigo

Mohale Mashigo (born Kgomotso Carol Mashigo; 1983) (and also known by her stage name Black Porcelain) is a South African singer-songwriter, novelist, and former radio presenter. Her debut novel The Yearning (Pan Macmillan, 2016) won the 2017 University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Debut Writing and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018. She lives in Cape Town.

## Quotes

* I do like this idea of time. For me there is no before or after. It’s all during. It’s just a bunch of “durings.” I don’t think of myself as someone in the past, I’m a person going through something. I do like to see how these “durings” influence the future.
** Kathie Birat and Mohale Mashigo, “Mohale Mashigo interviewed by Kathie Birat”, 23 July 2021,

### Intruders

* Koko and I somehow had the ability to walk alongside our hurt and disappointment; we never let it get ahead of us or lead us astray.’
** Intruders. Pp8
* How could he possibly describe anything when the world around him had lost its colour
** Intruders. Pp27
* I birthed myself; it was bloody and painful but now I’m standing on the roof of a city as something new.
** Intruders. Pp150
* The city is like that: it loves new and shiny things; which also leads it to be a graveyard of previously beautiful relics.
** Intruders. Pp156
* Things that lurk in the shadows do not like the light. People get used to one tiny light and begin to seek out more of it in the world and in themselves – that’s how the light liberates us.
** Intruders. Pp159
# Julia Mavimbela

Julia Nompi Mavimbela (20 December 1917 – 16 July 2000) was a schoolteacher and community leader in South Africa. When public schools were closed because of the 1976 Soweto uprising, Mavimbela taught schoolchildren in Soweto how to garden and how to read. Mavimbela later co-founded Women for Peace, an organization for women of all races to work for democracy in South Africa. In 1981 she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and served in local church leadership.

## Quotes

* Let us dig the soil of bitterness, throw in a seed, show love, and see what fruits will grow. Love will not come without forgiving others. Where there was a bloodstain, a beautiful flower must grow.
** BLOOMING OUT OF BITTERNESS: JULIA MAVIMBELA (8 November 2019)
* It is important for women to be aware of their common lot. It is important for women to stand together and rise together to meet our common enemies—illiteracy, poverty, crime, disease, and stupid, unjust laws that have made women feel so helpless as to be hopeless.
** Julia's address at the 1975 regional conference of the National Council of African Women
# Charlotte Maxeke

Charlotte Makgomo née Mannya Maxeke (7 April 1871[1] – 16 October 1939)was a South African religious leader, social and political activist; she was the first black woman to graduate with a university degree in South Africa with a B.Sc from Wilberforce University Ohio in 1903, as well as the first black African woman to graduate from an American university.

## Quotations

* This work is not for yourselves. Kill that spirit of self and do not live above your people but live with them and if you can rise, bring someone with you.
** Aug 22, 2021

## External links

* Charlotte Maxeke
* ”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
# Dalene Matthee

Dalene Matthee (13 October 1938 – 20 February 2005) was a South African author best known for her four "Forest Novels", written in and around the Knysna Forest.

## Quotes
### Fiela's Child (1985)

* But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.
* unhappiness was something you got used to or something that passed.
* ...What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.
* God forgives many things, but God never forgives us the wrong we do to a child.
** p. 279
** Fiela confronting the magistrate after walking for two days to Knysna in order to find Benjamin
* Get your hands to work, Selling, none of us can understand it.
** p. 269
** Fiela addressing her husband Selling after it has become clear that Benjamin will not be returning to the Long Kloof anytime soon.
* To hear, after nine years, that they had found a child that might be yours, was not news that you could take lightly. And if it was the child they had found, only the Lord in Heaven could know how he had got over the mountain to the Long Kloof.
** p. 138
** Elias van Rooyen’s reaction to receiving the news about Lukas potentially having been discovered
* What is it that is troubling you? You’re young, but your eyes are old.
** p. 521
** Benn, the captain of the pilot ship for whom Benjamin hopes to work confronting the boy and asks him to express his feelings
* An ostrich took a mate for life. It was their nature. Why try and mess up nature? Was the new prosperity not enough for them? …Where would it end?
** p. 486
** Fiela reflecting on the trend in the Long Kloof of people breeding ostriches in order to sell their highly valuable feathers

## External links

* Fiela's Child
# Gladys Mgudlandlu

Gladys Mgudlandlu (1917 — 17 February 1979) was a South African artist and educator. Noted as one of the first African women in South Africa to hold a solo exhibition, she was a pioneer in visual arts in her country, for which she was given the Presidential Order of Ikhamanga in Silver. She drew influences from her cultural background and the landscape around her.

## Quotes

* Birds have always been my companions. I am a very lonely person. They are the only real friends that I have had. Sometimes I think I should have been a bird. I even paint like a bird. You will notice that all my landscapes are done from a bird’s view, high up and far away.

## Quotes about Gladys Mgudlandlu

* But of course she is also known for her landscapes. Her practice was quite contentious in terms of the subject. Many critics argued that it was influenced by the white people she was in contact with, for instance her gallerist. For me, there is something very exciting about her imagery of birds and landscapes.
** Interview by Britta Färber with Kemang Wa Lehulere as published in Bird Song, 2017.
# Mosetsanagape Mokomele-Mothib

Mosetsanagape Margaret Mokomele-Mothibi is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Northwest Provincial Legislature until 2014, when she failed to gain re-election. She served as the North West's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Social Development, Women, Children and People with Disabilities from November 2010 to June 2013 under Premier Thandi Modise. She was fired from the Executive Council after she admitted that she had used public funds to attend the ANC's 52nd National Conference in December 2012

## Quotes

* "She won’t pay the money as the ministerial booklet allowed her to the benefit."
* “I will not pay back the money as I am entitled to those benefits. I do not know why only me being brought forward before the committee while there are other MECs who did the same, but they are not questioned."
** I won’t pay even a cent”- MEC Mokomele-Mothibi, By Obakeng Maje, June 12,2013, Retrieved 10/11/2023
# Sisonke Msimang

Sisonke Msimang is a South African writer, activist and political analyst based in Perth, Western Australia, whose focus is on race, gender, and politics. She is known for her memoir Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home (2017) and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela (2018), a biography of anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

## Quotes

* Reft of a physical place in this world we can call home, exile makes us love the idea of South Africa. We are bottle-fed the dream: South Africa is not simply about non-racialism and equality but something much more profound.
** Long journey home. The West Australian. 23 August 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2021.

## External links

* Official website