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# Mpho Tshivhase

Mpho Tshivhase is a South African philosopher who teaches at the University of Pretoria. In April 2018, Tshivhase became the first black woman to receive a PhD in philosophy in all of South Africa. Tshivhase teaches applied ethics and her research is focused on uniqueness and individuality

## Quotes

* “Professionally, my role involves lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate students and supervising postgraduate research projects,”
* “I am currently abroad on a visiting scholarship as part of building international scholarship on topics relating to African knowledge systems and the works produced therein. Part of the aim of this project is to decolonize academia and what we teach at universities in Africa.”
* “I also have an interest in exploring the ontological status of Blackness,”
* “I am a guardian to a group of students who form an executive committee of the Faculty House in Humanities, an academic mentor for some students on the Student Representative Council, and I am a consultant at Redhill School in Johannesburg, which runs a project on philosophy for children.”
* “I have humbly learned not to plan for the future, as tomorrow is a mystery that will only become known to me when it manifests,” she concludes.
* “My journey has been affected by many people in different yet valuable ways, especially by my late mother, who unfailingly prioritized my wellbeing. She created a space for me to use the world as laboratory where I could experiment with different ideas and models of life.”
** Education 2019 by mg.co.za, 2019, Retrieved 16/11/2023
# Nicky Newton-King

Nicky Newton-King (born 1966) is a corporate finance and securities regulation lawyer and was the first woman Chief Executive Officer in the 125-year history of the Johannesburg Stock exchange (JSE).

## Quotes

* In Women’s Month, I will accept one or two speaking engagements, just as an opportunity for people to ask me the questions they never get a chance to ask,” she says. “Some people never see me; they’ll see me only in the newspaper or on television or hear me on the radio, and they have questions all the way from: ‘what was your life like’ to ‘were you always going to be a CEO’ to ‘what does your day look like’. These questions are not things you read in a newspaper, but once you are available as a female leader to answer those types of questions, it becomes aspirational for others. You break down the barriers. It’s not only aspirational, it’s an attainable aspiration. People see that there’s a person there – that person has done the following things to do that, and that person’s life feels and looks like the following…
** 5 minutes with Nicky Newton King
* For most of my life I knew about women who worked hard. From negotiating prices to dinner table conversations – there was no barrier for women. Women could do anything: They had a place at the table. You have to earn that place – Study hard, work hard and put up your hand.
** https://www.sacap.edu.za/blog/management-leadership/women-to-celebrate-10-inspiring-south-african-women/ SACAP ( August 12, 2020)
# Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi(born 19 July 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000's, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. Muholi is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, explaining that "I'm just human."

## Quotes

* I cannot give up myself and my soul simply because I need some exposure.
* If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
* Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.
* It is personal issues that makes me do what I do, for I have been raped more than 50 times by just listening to what women who have confessed and confirmed their love for other women have been through.
* But the fact that we have one of the most advanced constitutions has had little impact on mindsets in townships. Members of our community are celebrating the constitution, but it is very different in the society.
* It is being both black and gay which is problematic.
* They should hold workshops on the constitution in all the townships - people are not aware of our rights and needs.

## External links

* Official website: www.zanelemuholi.com
* a gallery of photographs in The Guardian
* in The Museum of Modern Art
# Cathy O'Dowd

Cathy O'Dowd (born 1968) is a South African rock climber, mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both the south and the north sides on 25 May 1996 and 29 May 1999, respectively.

## Quotes
### Cathy O’Dowd: teamwork & leadership from the slopes of Everest (2019)

    Cathy O’Dowd: teamwork & leadership from the slopes of Everest (21.01.2019)
* Mt. Everest is now the wealthy executive’s midlife crises.
* That thing you did 10 years ago that was significant everyone is doing it now. The thing you did a year ago, you’ve been copied
* It is about what is happening within the group of people you have chosen to go with. The teams who failed, very few of them where actually stopped by the mountain. Even the ones caught in the storm they made complacent mistakes that made them vulnerable when things went wrong and then the teams that succeed it’s about the set of intangible tools a real clarity of purpose for your team

## External links

* Cahty O'Dowd Wikipedia site
* Climbing Magazine interview
* Jon Krakauer's account of 1996 disaster
# Margie Orford

Margie Orford (born 30 September 1964) is a South African journalist, film director and author of crime fiction, children's fiction, non-fiction and school text books.

## Quotes

* If I don’t write down what I’ve witnessed, who will? We can easily say we can’t look at this stuff, we can’t record it because it’s too shocking, but then what happens is there’s this silence, there’s this lacuna around it and it disappears.
** Her reply when asked if she saw her own inner dialogue echoed in Cora’s art
* It’s a thing that requires complexity, people’s sexualities are very complex. There can be great desire in submission. It’s the image making and then the reduction of a full human response to this two-dimensional thing.
** The idea of coerced consent when there is a power imbalance
* In fiction you have the mind, the interiority of the person, and the action happening at the same time. But I agree with you, they’re such different forms.
** What happens when you have a crime committed against a person that never ever comes to an end?’—Margie Orford talks to Jennifer Malec about her new novel The Eye of the Beholder (8 September 2022)
* There was such a sense of liberation and opening that sort of space that had been closed off so completely under Apartheid – no light, no oxygen – it really opened and expanded and into that came so much publishing and writing.
** Her description of how, later the new South African constitution in 1994 constitutionaly protects the right to free expression
* I think we keep the secrets from ourselves. Because we have experienced a moment when you look into a person’s eyes and you see that how they are looking at you is dehumanising. In that moment, all your humanity is lost. And it’s unbearable. We keep that secret from our daughters, because we don’t want them to be seen in that way.
** Answer to how we write our stories on to our daughters (23 November 2022)
* The heart is blind. You can’t love unless you have the heart of a child. It’s beautiful, but it’s the thing that makes you vulnerable. And when this connects with the secrets you hold, it can create a distortion in the psyche.
** Margie Orford focuses our gaze on secrets, obsession and intergenerational trauma — and produces an exquisite work of art
* With language and art, we can restore something that has been erased. It’s a way of saying the unsayable, of restoring humanity.
** Elaboration on what makes her book titled, Eye of the Beholder special
* Our culture works with ways of looking. If you think of the colonial gaze — the scopic power is masculine. You see it. You take it. It’s yours. We learn to reflect this gaze back on to ourselves as women when we look at ourselves in that objectifying way.
** How our culture makes us look at ourselves
# Portia Modise

Portia Modise (born 20 June 1983) is a South African footballer who was named Player of the Championship at the 2006 Women's African Football Championship. She represented the South Africa national team at the 2012 London Olympics. She became the first African player to score 100 international goals.

## Quotes

* "It's about time now we get the recognition and we get the gender equality that we deserve."
* "It's not about disrespecting the country, it's about the country helping us."
** Banyana Banyana demands higher pay: 'We deserve gender equality' by Amy Fraser July 3, 2023. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
* "We are forgetting that without fans there’ll never be football and these players will never get paid."
* "What causes emptiness in stadium it is that people don’t respect fans anymore – we are losing it."
** PORTIA MODISE SAYS KAIZER CHIEFS FANS SHOULD BE PATIENT WITH GIOVANNI SOLINAS by Ofentse Ratsie. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
* "Women are being discovered, women are being celebrated, a lot of people are starting to know about these women that are doing wonders in our country."
** PORTIA MODISE PRAISES BEING RECOGNISED ON THE GSPORT STAGE by Nonto Nothana. August 18, 2021. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
* "If people didn't love me when I was scoring goals, putting South Africa on the map, why would I expect them to love me because I tell the truth about women's football?"
* "I didn't wake up to choose to be gay. I didn't want to be insulted every day when I walk in the street. I didn't choose this, but I was born like this."
* "There is nothing wrong in being a lesbian; it is how you project yourself in public places. You are born with it and you won't just change it because somebody says you should do it."
* "We are there to do what we love, to share the game, to motivate other women out there and to make sure that if they want to play the game, there are people like us fighting for them."
* "When you are Black, it comes with disadvantages, because you need to really prove yourself."
* "It didn't matter where I came from, I was talented."
* "You get to realise that the little love you know is not enough for the person that you're with."
** Meet Portia Modise, Africa's highest goalscorer and defiant gay icon by Leonard Solms. June 28, 2021. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
# Precious Motsepe

Precious Moloi-Motsepe (born 2 August 1964) is a South African philanthropist and fashion entrepreneur. One of the richest women in South Africa she started her career as a medical practitioner, specializing in children and women’s health. In September 2019 she was elected Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, succeeding Graça Machel, and beginning her ten-year term on 1 January.

## Quotes

* Creating a culture of ambitious and strong-willed women requires solidarity among women, and especially the inclusion of men. From my childhood experiences I recognise that our existence is interdependent.
* African consumers are now recognising their own designers are as valuable any of the brands they buy globally,"
* as a young girl I always enjoyed the feel and look of clothing. Growing up in Soweto, you socialised at weddings and church – those were times when you could shine and put on your best outfit and I enjoyed that. I couldn’t sew to save my life at school, but when playing with dolls with my siblings and cousins, I had the fashion sense, in terms of knowing what looked good on the dolls. And the passion grew from there. So going into the fashion industry was an easy transition for me, because I felt I could make a difference by investing in the growth of industries that define who we are as a nation. The fashion and arts industry is important in that regard, as well as the way it employs thousands of people, such as fabric makers, seamstresses and beaders”.
* I never agonised about not practising medicine. I believe you need to find things that you enjoy doing and explore them to the fullest, but don't get stuck with them. I don't believe in this myopic view of our careers, where you have to study something and then you have to work in that career for the next 50 years. It's like buying an expensive hammer and for the rest of your life you've got to be hammering in nails. I really don't believe that. I think medicine, in many ways, prepared me for many other things that I could do. Passion, hard work, honesty and respect for others is something I carry with me wherever I go. I hope that in 10 years' time I will go into something else. I believe in reinventing myself as a human being. There are people who want to stay in a career and explore it to the maximum, but I like change.
* Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
* Change, and advocacy, by men and women begins within our immediate household and workplace environments. Patriarchy creates emotional scars that can only be healed through constructive dialogue.
* What is needed is political will—men and women who are sensitive to and committed to promoting gender equality for the overall benefit of society."
* "Empowering women must include men"
# Karen Press

Karen Press (born 1956) is a South African poet.
Antjie Krog has described her poetry as "presenting a haunting museum constructed in [...] delicate tone and vivid poetic intelligence."

## Quotes

* Words are such thin shavings of the fractal fruit, tiny scraping of the skin that holds these joyously determined swirls of history inside their juicy turbulence. Talking itself westward after the day's feast, each little word with its meaning strapped to its back falls down the swell of tomorrow like a hiker with hopeful new shoes.
** Purposefully peeling footsteps (Home, 2000)
# Bridgette Radebe

Bridgette Radebe (born on 26 February 1960) is a South African businesswoman of Tswana descent and the sister of South African businessman Patrice Motsepe and First Lady of South Africa Tshepo Motsepe. Radebe received an "International Businessperson of the Year Award" in May 2008 by the Global Foundation for Democracy . This award recognizes business people who have made a difference in the world of changing political and environmental landscapes.

## Quotes

* Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
** Bridgette Radebe – Biography Of South Africa’s First Black Female Mining Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs.ng, April 16 2020
* Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of others. We’re running a different race.
** Bridgette Radebe – Biography Of South Africa’s First Black Female Mining Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs.ng, April 16 2020
* I have a new theory in life… what others may think of me is truly none of my business.
** ** Bridgette Radebe – Biography Of South Africa’s First Black Female Mining Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs.ng, April 16 2020
* “Let me tell you a secret. If you want loads of money… then give out money, I have never seen a giver lack.”
* “…Without the training, people cannot be promoted.”
* “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does, keep going.”
* “The biggest lesson I’ve learned is how important it is to have a mentor when you start your business. There is knowledge I would not have had access to if it weren’t for my mentors.”
# Sarah Millin

Sarah Gertrude Millin, née Liebson (19 March 1889 – 6 July 1968), was a South African author.

## Quotes
### The Dark River (1919)

* ...the fruit of the vice, the folly, the thoughtlessness of the white man. In the old days - taking one aspect of the matter - there were colonists who, like the Biblical patriarchs or monarchs, had their official and their unofficial households, their white wives and their Hottentot hand-maids. But they used their slave-women as Abraham used Hagar rather than as Solomon used the Shulamite.

### God's Stepchildren (1924)

* We are all God's children.....Perhaps, we brown people are His stepchildren.

### The South Africans (1926)

* And yet the less civilised white peasant of Europe is to this extent the coloured man's superior: the blood in him is stronger for advancement.
* Given the opportunity, the descendant of serfs may be a Tchekov. But the child of colour, unless his colour is attenuated to the verge of vanishing point, does not seem to have in him the ability to rise. It is as if the offspring of the originally mixed unions had, through generations, and through circumscription of life and interbreeding, achieved a definite, inferior, and static race: a race not given to wildness (its mothers were savages, but they were slaves); a race with something old and civilised about it (its fathers were Europeans); a race made up of weak materials and without the capacity for spiritual or intellectual growth.
* There are some who suggest that mixed breeds, unless replenished in a generation or two with the blood of one of the original stocks, tend to die out.
** p. 60

### King of Bastards (1950)

* ....the whites are the conquerors and all is theirs. A man's one hope is among the whites.... The thing for the Buys-volk to do is to get back to the whites.

## External links

* The Coloured Stereotype in South African Literature
# Refiloe Jane

Refiloe Jane (born 4 August 1992) is a South African professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Italian Serie A club US Sassuolo and the South Africa women's national team. She previously played for Tshwane University of Technology and Canberra United in the W-League in Australia. She married her long time girlfriend Christa Flora Kgamfe.

## Quotes

* “Personally, I feel honored to be with Milan for the second season. We’ve been working as a group and I know the efforts that the technical team has put in and the task that they have in the team. And I feel very blessed to be a part of Milan also in the second half of the season.”
* “In my opinion, in the previous games that we lost, especially also in the Derby, they didn’t go our way. We need to also give credit to Inter as they are a good team and also we are also an equally good team. So when we played and played to win, it’s just unfortunate that the results didn’t go our way.”
* “With the game against Empoli, is also going to be a difficult one. We know they are also a good team like any other team in the league. So it’s a good chance for us to redeem ourselves as a team and to focus on the positives that we are going out there to get”
* “Training in Manchester, I realized that playing football is what I want to do. It was where I realized my dream of being a footballer. And when I moved to Australia, where I played for Canberra United, it was my first professional contract. And with that I got an eye opener on how it is to be a professional, how to behave and how it is to play at the highest level.”
* “Playing at the San Siro has always been my dream, and I know it’s every footballer’s dream to play in such an iconic stadium. And despite the results that we got against Juventus, I think we played well as a team."
* “And those memories will stay with us, despite the defeat. We always want to play in the best stadiums. We always want to play in the best countries, and given that opportunity by Milan, we’ll always be grateful.”
* “After my football career, I’m hoping to give back to the community. I’m hoping to probe into young talents, and I want to use my experiences that I’ve got in football to change people’s lives.”
* “We realised that we achieved a dream and we are also giving an opportunity to other youngsters to be able to dream because we realised that with perseverance, hard work and discipline, nothing is impossible.”
* “The nickname ‘Fifi’ is cut from Refiloe. So instead of seeing the whole of ‘Refiloe’, we just take too the ‘Fi’ and make it ‘Fifi’, so it’s a short way of saying ‘Refiloe’.”
** AC Milan Women Star Refiloe Jane: I feel very blessed to be a part of Milan by Steph insixiengmay, 17 March 2001, Retrieved 15/11/2023.
# Naomi Schiff

Naomi Schiff (born 18 May 1994) is a Rwandan and Belgian racing driver and television presenter. She was born in Belgium, to a Belgian father and Rwandan mother, grew up in South Africa, and now lives in Paris, France.

## Quotes

* I panicked, and thought I will have so many regrets if I don’t keep chasing my racing career. And just like that, W Series dropped out of the sky. That was the beginning of a whole new chapter.
** Fuel for Thought: Naomi Schiff on Her Path From the Track to the Television,SI, 7 July 2023 by Katty Fairman
* F1 was always my goal and although I planned to be there as a driver, I got there in a different shape and form which is fine. That was the most mind-blowing thing to me
** Fuel for Thought: Naomi Schiff on Her Path From the Track to the Television,SI, 7 July 2023 by Katty Fairman
# Lauretta Ngcobo

Lauretta Ngcobo (13 September 1931 – 3 November 2015) was a South African novelist and essayist.

## Quotes
### And They Didn't Die (1990)

* From the day whe arrived at her husband's home, no one called her by her name.
* The women are experts at waiting - for husbands, for rain, for unborn children.
* Yet, he knew that he did not understand anything about the place or its people or its problems.
** Chapter 1, pg. 1
* He said it all depended on his employer; but what did his employer know about her, or her body or their need for a baby? How could he plan their life without them?
** Chapter 1, pg. 7
* It galled him that anybody should think him inferior.
** Chapter 3, pg. 36
* Things in the country moved at a snail's pace, but they did arrive in the end, and when they did they would crash in fury over people's heads
** Chapter 4, pg. 51
* In one convulsive moment Zenzile died.
** Chapter 5, pg. 59
* And we do not want passes. They have enslaved our men—and we do not want to carry them.
** Chapter 7, pg. 81

## External links

* And They Didn't Die
* Bookrags
# Judith Sephuma

Judith Sephuma (born 29 June 1974) is a South African jazz and Afro-pop singer.

## Quotes

* Performing at home is the best part of my job, and being paired with international artists of Bebe Winans’ stature and all the other global household names that I have performed with is an absolute honour.
** Judith Sephuma 'can't wait to perform alongside Bebe Winans' at his South African tour news24, 19 October 2023 by Mbali Mbatha
* I also believe strongly that when I look good, I feel good, and this allows me to deliver to the best of my ability.
** Judith Sephuma 'can't wait to perform alongside Bebe Winans' at his South African tour news24, 19 October 2023 by Mbali Mbatha

## External links

* ↑ Judith Sephuma", TVSA.