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# Candice Swanepoel

Candice Susan Swanepoel (born 20 October 1988) is a South African model. She is known for her work with Victoria's Secret. She became a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2010. In 2016, she was listed 8th on the Forbes top-earning models list.

## Quotes

* It's good to manifest things you want and goals. If you do, they kind of end up happening.
** https://www.elle.com/beauty/makeup-skin-care/news/a46732/candice-swanepoel-juicy-couture/
* You can be going home in a cab and get inspired by the most random thing.
** https://www.elle.com/beauty/makeup-skin-care/news/a46732/candice-swanepoel-juicy-couture/ By FARAN KRENTCIL retrieved 20/07/2017
# Bokang Montjane

Bokang Montjane (born 5 May 1986 in Transvaal) is a South African model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss South Africa 2010, becoming the official representative of her country to the Miss Universe 2011 and Miss World 2011 pageants.

## Quotes

* I love being African and l love African women, celebrating all that we are and encompass, so I’m inviting women across the entire continent, married, divorced or widowed, to fetch their lives and enter Mrs Universe Africa.
* Let's change the narrative, change mindsets and challenge the stereotypical ideas of what beauty is ... May we change lives together and create a new narrative for women across our beautiful continent.
** Former Miss SA Bokang Montjane-Tshabalala to direct Mrs Universe Africa, IOL,14 May 2021 by Thobile Mazibuko

## External Links

* Official Miss South Africa Website
# Simphiwe Dana

Simphiwe Dana (born 23 January 1980) is a South African singer and songwriter who works mostly in her mother tongue, the Xhosa language.[1] Dana is also known for her creative social commentary and activism through music as a political art form. Her career in music began in 2002, at the age of 22.

## Quotes

* 'On the dark side of the moon Yeah is where I felt I reside Till the day I met you I was cold, Frozen inside.
** Firebrand (Special Edition, 2015)

## External links

* Simphiwe Dana official website
# Desiree Ellis

Desiree Ellis OIG (born 14 March 1963) is a South African soccer manager and former player. She currently coaches the South Africa women's national team.

## Quotes
### "Coach Desiree Ellis believes Banyana could've gone all the way at World Cup" (2023)

"Coach Desiree Ellis believes Banyana could've gone all the way at World Cup" by Chanté Ho Hip. Retrieved 2023/11/04.
* It has shown that we’ve grown, that we can mix it up there with the best [and] it shows that the rankings really don’t mean anything if you prepare and plan well.
* Surely, if you can train week in and week out at this intensity, then things will be bigger and better.
# Diane Awerbuck

Diane Awerbuck (born 1 April 1974) is a South African novelist, teacher and reviewer. Her novel, Gardening at Night, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2011, her collection of short stories, Cabin Fever, was published by Random House Struik. Her novel, Home Remedies, was published by Random House Struik in August 2012. She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2014, and won the Short Story Day Africa competition the same year.

## Quotes

* We all have those roads-in-the-yellow-wood dudes –the unready loves who left us, or we left. Sometimes, in the small, shuddery hours, they come back. I think about them; I’m glad I knew them. Life is long. If you’re lucky.
** Short.Sharp.Stories anthology Fluid: interview with Diane Awerbuck, author of "The ones that got away" (24 May 2023)
* Novels are the most terrifying of the forms, apart from screenplays (which are basically the haiku of the fiction world, and which is why the good ones are hardly ever written by just one person).
** Her reply when asked what draws her to writing short story
* Writing is an aptitude. Sometimes you have more time and inclination for it, and sometimes you have children.
** Her reply when asked if writing has become easier over the years
* We steal; we hoard; we like the sounds of our own voices.
** The meaning to her description of fiction writers being magpies
* We all experience longing and magic, but we aren’t always good at knowing when they’re happening to us. Longing and magic don’t go away because we get older or more disappointed with our circumstances and selves.
** Her reply when asked if she would consider her story to be characterised by magical realism
* Middle-aged love is so devastating because this time round, you know exactly what’s at stake! Old-aged love is going to knock your thrombosis socks clean off!
** The differences during middle-aged and old-aged period
* The archaeology of aging is so interesting – what people think they are allowed to do; what they actually can do.
** Sharing what should be expected in her new collection titled, Inside your body there are flowers.
* Don’t do it. But also: if you want to, you will.
** Tips for emerging and established writers

## External links

* Authority control: VIAF: 66718315 | WorldCat search
# Brenda Fassie

Brenda Fassie (3 November 1964 – 9 May 2004) was a South African singer, songwriter, dancer and activist. Affectionately called MaBrrr by her fans, she is also known as the "Queen of African Pop", the "Madonna of The Townships" or simply as The Black Madonna. Her bold stage antics earned a reputation for "outrageousness"; ironically, her Xhosa name, Nokuzola, means "quiet", "calm", or "peace".

## Quotes

* I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.
** BBC News, Monday, 10 May, 2004
* I’ve never dreamt that I’d become what I am today, I’ve just always believed that I would be what I am today. And still I’m not satisfied of who I am today, people know me in South Africa but I want to explore and be known by everybody out there.
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyu2IxguOWk

## Quotes about Brenda Fassie

* I developed a sincere love for her artistic prowess and a deep respect for her compositional genius, virtuosity, simplicity, her smooth dancing and friendliness towards all. She had a warmth full of pomp.
** Hugh Masekela as expressed in the article Gone but not forgotten: A love letter to Brenda by Maureen Isaacson, w:Daily Maverick, 22 May 2014.
# Ami Faku

Amanda Faku (born May 28, 1993) is a South African singer, performer and songwriter. Born and raised in the township of eBhayi, eZinyoka, Port Elizabeth. Faku rose to fame as a contestant on The Voice SA season 2 in 2017 and began getting recognition in the music industry after her hit single, ‘Ubuhle Bakho’ was featured on Uzalo, when it was Mangcobo’s entrance song on her wedding on the telenovela.

## Quotes

* My music is based on touching you in a certain way. I don't have a wall, that's my brand.
** Meet Ami Faku, the Rising South African ‘Modern Afro Soul’ Artist Who Is Fast Becoming a Household Name by Sabelo Mkhabela, Okay Africa.
* When I started out, I had an idea of what I wanted my sound to sound like. But I didn’t know what steps to take and how to say it so I just winged it and hoped for the best. My references were the people who I looked up to. I listened to them and took what I liked from them even though they come from different genres. Chronixxx does reggae, there’s Rihanna, Daniel Caesar and Caiphus Semenya. A song that impressed me lyrically was amaGama by uNathi. That’s the writer I want to be one day.
** The Portfolio: Ami Faku, Mail & Guardian, by Ami Faku, 12 March 2020.
* I feel like being honest helps me heal. I decided to put that in my music. I hope they [fans] notice how I stand out.
** Mail and Guardian's 200 Young South Africans: Ami Faku, 27, by Lesley Stones, 2020
* When you are being real, there’s no one like you, and there’s so much power in that.
** Mail and Guardian's 200 Young South Africans: Ami Faku, 27, by Lesley Stones, 2020

## Song Lyrics
### Fatela (2022)

* Many are grateful for this year Be happy you are still alive I'm going to get all my love for you I'm happy you're still alive Put it in there Tell him you understand Please forgive each other Mistakes happen.
** Abaningi abawubonga Lø nyaka Jabula ma usaphila Zonke zami ngiyani fatela (love) omacala ngiyajabula manisa phila Ithubalise khona Mtshele uyamvroustaan Ncela sixolelane Amaphutha aya yenzeka
** Lyrics on Genius.com written by Ami Faku and Aymos
# Vanessa Gounden

Vanessa Gounden (born 1961) is South Africa's first female mining magnate and a successful female entrepreneur, whose business interest span healthcare services, financial services and lifestyle and leisure. She served in the ANC administration during the 1990s.

## Quotes

* I'm inspired by what's not been done before - bringing together fashion and original art.
** Rags To Riches (12 July 2011) by Hattie West retrieved 16 July 2022

### GLAMOUR Women in Charge: Vanessa Gounden (2021)

GLAMOUR Women in Charge: Vanessa Gounden ( 9 April 2021) by Nontando Mpuso retrieved 16 July 2022
* Nothing great ever happens in your comfort zone.
* Authenticity goes a long way, so keep being yourself and your art will speak for itself.
* The glass is either full or half empty. It’s all about your perception of life.
* Impossible is nothing.

## External links

* Rags To Riches (12 July 2011) by Hattie West
* GLAMOUR Women in Charge: Vanessa Gounden ( 9 April 2021) by Nontando Mpuso
# Ayabonga Khaka

Ayabonga Khaka (born 18 July 1992) is a South African cricketer who plays for the national cricket team as a right-arm medium bowler. In March 2018, she was one of fourteen players to be awarded a national contract by Cricket South Africa ahead of the 2018–19 season.

## Quotes

* I think everyone that comes and goes within the team, the team will always miss the impact that player had. It is always like that. We have all the memories with them, and it is something we will miss in the change-room
* But as a bowling unit, we do have a great unit. We do have people who can step in.
* I am not the type of player that will go to the captain and say ‘I want to bowl’. I’ll let them make their decisions.
** Proteas Women still have a great bowling unit ...’ Ayabonga Khaka says there is life after Shabnim IsmailIOL, 30 August 2023 by Zaaheir Adams

## References

* ↑ Ayabonga Khaka". ESPN Cricinfo. ESPN Inc. Retrieved 12 April 2014
* ↑ Ntozakhe added to CSA womens' [sic] contracts". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 March 2018.

## External Links

* Ayabonga Khaka at ESPNcricinfo
* Ayabonga Khaka at CricketArchive
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# Deborah Fraser

Deborah Fraser (June 9, 1965 – May 15, 2022) was a South African gospel singer.

## Quotes

* I am performing still because there’s nothing wrong with my voice or hands, except there’s a headache that comes and goes.
** ‘I’m losing my mind’: Deborah Fraser’s last interview before her death by Naledi de Wee,17-05-2022 Retrieved 13/11/2023
* Plus, I cannot walk. Sometimes I wake up feeling as if I can’t think properly, as if I’m losing my mind. Otherwise, I can sit on my wheelchair and sing.
** ‘I’m losing my mind’: Deborah Fraser’s last interview before her death by Naledi de Wee,17-05-2022 Retrieved 13/11/2023
* People should respect other people.
** Deborah Fraser in live concert by ABE TV,23-11-2020 Retrieved 8/9/2024
* People make me a superstar and treat me that way. But I am not a superstar. I just regard myself as an ordinary God-fearing person.
** Land ambassadors by UNCCD Retrieved 8/9/2024
* People make me a superstar and treat me that way. But I am not a superstar. I just regard myself as an ordinary God-fearing person. Today’s enemy is poverty and ignorance, and it has to be fought with all the might at our disposal.
** UN names Drylands Ambassadors to raise awareness on land degradation by UN Retrieved 9/9/2024
* There are a lot of people, who go hungry, and yet there is land they could be utilizing profitably. It is part of my obligation to learn about the land and how it can be better utilized.
** Land ambassadors by UNCCD Retrieved 8/9/2024
* There are a lot of people who go hungry and yet there is land they could be utilizing profitably.
** UN names Drylands Ambassadors to raise awareness on land degradation by UN Retrieved 9/9/2024
# Pregs Govender

Pregs Govender (born 15 February 1960) is a South African human rights activist, author, and politician. Brought up in a political family she was taking action against apartheid by the age of 14. She became a teacher in Durban joining unions and the ANC. In 1994 she entered the first South African Democratic parliament where she argued for women's rights including the laws permitting abortions.

## Quotes

* When I wrote Love and Courage, the Story of Insubordination, I was not just telling the story of some isolated individual operating in a bubble. It was really about my learning about the power of love and how to connect, to draw courage and be insubordinate, to injustice and to systems of injustice
** Pregs on her book Love and courage
* My father used to say the person who writes the story shapes our consciousness. So it’s not just about whose stories get told, but it’s about if you are writing the story yourself, if it’s your story, if it’s your experience, the power of that is enormous. Because our stories have been written for us and they’ve been re-written. And many times we’ve been written out.

## External links

* Authority control: VIAF: 41628488 | WorldCat search
# Cat Hellisen

Cat Hellisen (born 31 May 1977) is the South African author of fantasy novels When the Sea is Rising Red, House of Sand and Secrets, and Beastkeeper.

## Quotes
### Water: New Short Fiction from Africa, Short Story Day Africa (2016)

    Water: New Short Fiction from Africa, Short Story Day Africa, 2016, ISBN 978-1-928215-08-0
* Let me tell you for nothing it was a great relief to find all my toes in the right order and with the right amount of skin and bone. You miss them fierce when you don’t have them.
* I had just sat on the edge of the river with my knees right up against my chest and cried because ten is too young to know that sometimes your parents have to do what’s best for you even if it hurts you. Even if it hurts them.
* I breathed in the smoke from my final cigarette. It tasted like acceptance of growing up.

## Quotes about Cat Hellisen

* The Worme Bridge’ stood out for us with its brave story and clear, distinctive voice; it’s a wonderfully dark exploration of the water theme. The story works effortlessly to construct an other kind of reality while grounding itself in the real world. The writing is compelling: the reader is drawn into this family and the strangeness that overtakes them. We found this a powerful piece of writing that continues to haunt the reader afterwards.
** The Worme Bridge, Water: New Short Fiction from Africa, Short Story Day Africa, ISBN 978-1-928215-08-0
# Andile Dlamini

Andile ‘Sticks’ Dlamini (born 2 September 1992) is a South African soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for SAFA Women's League club Mamelodi Sundowns and the South Africa women's national team.

## Quotes

* "We know it is 11 against 11 on the field and one team must win."
* "That's what I want to see change - getting more sponsors in the women's game so that the girls can also make a living out of a football career."
* "Music is life"
** Women's World Cup 2023: South Africa's Andile Dlamini talks football and music by Celestine Karoney. July 13, 2023. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
* "I want to be the positive force that heals people and being humble does that."
** Andile Dlamini 'humbled' to be named SA Sports Star of the Year by Michael Pedro. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
* "If you know who you represent and who you are, I think you'll understand the people that you're representing."
* "This is a team sport and I'm given talent and when you have it you need to use it in a positive way."
* "I needed to be strong for others. I believe so much in positivity. Why do I? It's because one can perform to the best of their abilities if they're happy."
* "I believe that we are who we are today because of unity. When you're united nothing can break you. Even outside factors can't break you."
* "If you want to solve something as quickly as possible, communicate so that you break negativity."
* "We didn't go there to make numbers but we went there to make a difference and to make that little girl proud."
** 'I needed to be strong for others': Banyana keeper Dlamini on being benched at World Cup by Sazi Hadebe. August 19, 2023. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
# Colleen Higgs

Colleen Higgs (born 1962 in Kimberley, South Africa) is a South African writer and publisher. As a writer, she has published poems and stories in literary magazines in South Africa since 1990. As a publisher, she is both renowned and respected as the founder of independent publishing house, Modjaji Books.

## Quotes

* My whole life has felt like a long deeply unsatisfying love affair with my mother. She is the beloved who doesn't love back.
** My mother, my madness, Deep South, 2020, ISBN 978-1928476368
* I wanted my writing to offer an account of what it was like to take care of my mother, the details of that experience, the feelings, the lived experience. Women often do work like this that is unacknowledged, unseen. So, I guess I wanted to make it visible – not just my work, but this kind of work of taking care of elderly parents, of a child.
** "Inter-review with Colleen Higgs about her memoir, My mother, my madness" in litnet Janet van Eeden, Colleen Higgs (13 November 2020)

## External links

* Modjaji Books
# Claudia Henkel

Claudia Henkel (born 22 April 1983 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a South African beauty queen, who held the title Miss South Africa 2004.

## Quotes

* I don’t even have words to describe it
* I didn't know what he was going to look like, but I wondered what my dream man was doing. I made this relationship a reality. True love exists.
** LOOK: ‘Everyone said you didn’t exist’ - ex Miss SA Claudia Henkel shows off her new man IOL, 28 June 2023 by Gerry Cupido

## References

* ↑ (11 December 2004). Miss South Africa, People's Daily, retrieved 13 December 2010

## External Links

https://web.archive.org/web/20080914032905/http://www.claudiahenkel.co.za/
| Preceded by Joan Ramagoshi | Miss South Africa 2004 | Succeeded by Nokuthula Sithole |
# Jermaine Seoposenwe

Jermaine "Jay" Seoposenwe (born 12 October 1993) is a South African soccer player who plays as a forward for Mexican Liga MX Femenil club Monterrey and the South Africa women's national team.

## Quotes

* "Belief is also a big thing – belief that your team-mates are going to be there, do what’s needed, and belief that we can achieve the impossible. I fully believe in my team and I'm fully confident that, if we're playing at 100 per cent, we are capable of anything."
* "It’s about how much you want it, and I think that mentality needs to sink in."
* "I just feel like the game has given so much to me, so why not put everything on the line there when you step on to the field?"
* "When my team-mates see me give that extra effort, they follow."
** Seoposenwe: South Africa can achieve the impossible by fifa.com. August 1, 2023. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
* "We're human at the end of the day and I feel that there is a difference between when you treat players like human beings and you care for them."
** 'THE LACK OF RESPECT HURT ME': SEOPOSENWE ON BANYANA BANYANA'S PAY BATTLE by Michael Pedro. August 11, 2023. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
* "I want to compete for championships and for titles and keep going to next level in my career."
** Banyana Banyana's World Cup preparations going well - Jermaine Seoposenwe by Michael Pedro. June 29, 2023. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
# Jessica Motaung

Jessica Motaung (born 23 August 1973) is a South African television personality, sports executive and beauty pageant titleholder. As of February 2021 she serves as Marketing Director of the Kaizer Chiefs Football Club (known popularly by the Zulu-language phrase Amakhosi, which means "chiefs") in the Naturena suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

## Quotes

* This is a season of transformation for us and we are taking the work that needs to be done very seriously. I love the passion for the club, but people need to be kind in the way they engage because supporters can be quite nasty at times especially on social media where people can say whatever they want and remain nameless.
* We want ambitious players at the club. We provide the platform for them to do that and it’s up to them perform on that platform.
* We are looking for sustainable growth and success. Greatness is about overcoming challenges
** Season of transformation and growth ahead for Kaizer Chiefs' - Jessica Motaung 947, 26 July 2023 by Michael Petro

## External links

* ↑ Corporate". Kaizer Chiefs. Retrieved 14 February 2021
# Kamogelo Matona

Kamogelo Matona (born 29 November 1999), popularly known as Kamo Mphela, is a South African dancer and singer. She became an internet celebrity after she posted a video of her dancing on her social media account.

## Quotes

* "The fame doesn’t last that long so you have to make the most of it while you still have time. That’s what people don’t understand. It’s not a lifetime thing unless you are legendary.”
* "Cassper is still the biggest artist but he still has to convince people that he is the best. I don’t want to go through that personally. There’s only so much you can do in your own country. Fill Up was the biggest so what’s next? It’s easy to get to the top but it’s hard to stay there.”
* “I didn’t even know that the Jobe song had splits.”
* “I never signed to Major League. It’s just an association signing. I’m signed to myself. I met Mojar League at Moja Cafe when they were performing. That was there the first time they saw me. The asked me to come into the studio and started doing gigs with them.”
** Kamo Mphela on making the most out of her fame by Bukola, October 2,2020, Retrieved 2023/11/16
* "Someone released music under my name , which is wild like why would you do that babe ??”
** Kamo Mphela Reacts To An Unknown Artist Who Released Music Under Her Name by GLORIA MASIA, 2022/05/16, Retrieved 2023/11/26

## Quotes about Kamogelo Matona

* "she stated that she did not look up to any SA celebrity while growing up but she is a fan of Busiswa’s performances."
* “Jr met Jobe and after a video of me promoting the song went viral on Twitter they wanted me on the track. The song was already done and I put my vocals on it.
* "People trying to get you to sign contracts so that they can hold you down. I went through a couple of songs where I didn’t get any money from them. Jobe is one of those."
* “Jr wanted to sign me for three years. There was a bit of drama when I didn’t want to sign the contract. That’s why I’m not even on the Jobe music video.”
** Kamo Mphela on making the most out of her fame, by Bukola, October 2,2020,Retrieved 16/11/2023