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# Desiré Wilson

Desiré Randall Wilson (born 26 November 1953) is a former racing driver from South Africa and one of only five women to have competed in Formula One.

## Quotes

* I never looked back in the race, It’s one of those things, it’s hard to explain … It happens once in a lifetime. You say to yourself: ‘If I get into this corner first and lead the race I’m going to win.
* In my era, there were so few women that were racing at my level, You never really thought about yourself as: ‘I’m a woman in this race.’ You don’t think of yourself as something else. I was always the underdog because I never had funding and I was always given these cars to drive without any practice — I was always thrown in the deep end. For me it was always a concentration of what I was doing in this race car.
* The biggest problem is there’s never really enough funding for a woman to complete all the steps, It’s opportunity, what team you’re in, the funding you have and so forth. I was expecting someone to come up when I saw one or two drivers come up that had a fair amount of talent, but they never quite got to where they needed to go.
** Desiré Wilson: Fast but forgotten, Mail& Guardian,21 February 2020 by Luke Feltham

## References

* ↑ Desiré Wilson in the media – page 1". Wilson Motorsport Inc. Archived from the original on 24 August 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
* ↑ Taylor, S. (2010) "Lunch with... Desiré Wilson". Motor Sport, 86/2, 62–68.

## External Links

* F1 rejects interview
* Racing Reference Profile
* Champcar Stats
# Dulcie September

Dulcie Evonne September (20 August 1935 – 29 March 1988) was a South African anti-apartheid political activist. Born in Athlone, Western Cape, South Africa, she was assassinated in Paris, France.

## Quotes about person/work

* Today we meet here to honour a great South African woman who made an immense contribution to the people of South Africa, a woman who although she was taken away from us and deliberately silenced, is still loved, a woman who many of us remember and still treasure through the memories we have of her.
** Remarks by the Minister Ms Lulu Xingwana MP, on the occasion of the Dulcie September Memorial Lecture at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town19. August 2010.
# DJ Zinhle

Ntombezinhle Jiyane (DJ Zinhle) (born December 30, 1983) is a South African DJ, producer, media personality and businesswoman, who is better known by her stage name DJ Zinhle.

## Quotes

* Female DJs, perfect your art… don’t give them a reason to disrespect your work. Practice makes perfect. With that said, wear whatever you wanna wear & dance if it’s your thing… They are talking because you’re shaking the industry. It’s our time.
* Being empowered is a choice; it is a daily decision that defines who we are and it is accessible to everyone. Meeting Your Power is a reminder that power is inside all of us, and that your journey to empowerment begins with you! - MEETING YOUR POWER – DJ Zinhle & Nokubonga Mbanga
* You’re going to make a difference. A lot of times it won’t be huge, it won’t be visible even. But it will matter just the same.
* My Definition Of Success | Success is about setting goal and reaching those goals, they could be personal or professional goals. Success is personal and should never be driven by other people’s measures of success but your own and that is how the definition of success has changed for the over the year, just understanding that my definition and measure of success won’t be the same as that of the next person.
* Lessons I Have Learnt | Family is number one, you can have all the success in the world but without love, you will not be happy.

## Quotes about person/work

* The DJ and entrepreneur has not only committed to producing high-quality wigs at an affordable price but is also set on elevating women with her business.
* She says she hopes to largely employ women and help create an avenue for independence for them.

## External links

* Official site
# Sophie Lichaba

Is a South African actress.She played Queen Moroka in the soap Generations.

## Quotes

* "You need to equip yourself to know your body and know who you are. Don't get caught off guard like me"
* "My children saved my life"
** WATCH | Sophie Ndaba breaks down reflecting on how her children saved her lifeby Joy Mphande,07 September 2023 Retrieved 08/11/2023
* "Parents, pay attention to your children. They will save your life one day. I am telling you, I am living proof today"
* "If that child could bathe me, he would have bathed me"
** SOPHIE NDABA BREAK DOWN IN TEARS AS SHE REVEALS BIGGEST SECRET ABOUT HER CHILDREN- “THEY SAVED ME by STYLEYOU,SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 Retrieved 08/11/2023
# Tasman Pepper

Tasmin Jay Pepper (born 19 June 1990) is a South African female racing driver. She is currently a reserve driver in W Series.

## Quotes

* Racing has always been a part of the equation. If we not at the racetrack competing, we are watching some form of motorsport on TV. To become a professional racing driver is and always has been the ultimate goal.
* Being chosen as one of the top 18 women around the world to compete in the W Series was the most memorable highlight of my career. I finished the season 10th overall in the championship.
* It (karting) helps me to keep driving fit, seeing as it's extremely physical. In the end, nothing quite compares to the real thing though, and I can't wait to go back real Racing again
* Don't let anyone tell you, you can't do it. If it's something you want to do and pursue, don't stop until you have reached your full potential. It takes a lot of hard work and determination to make your way up the ladder, so never give up.
** Women in Wheels | 25 years and counting: Tasmin Pepper's awe-inspiring motorsport career, news24, 22 August 2020 by Charlen Raymond

## References

* ↑ Hockenheim W Series: Chadwick quickest in first ever practice". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 1 June 2019
* ↑ Tasmin Pepper – South Africa". W Series. Retrieved 16 April 2019
# Thembi Kgatlana

Chrestinah Thembi "Pikinini" Kgatlana (born 2 May 1996) is a South African professional soccer player who plays as a forward for National Women's Soccer League club Racing Louisville FC and the South Africa women's national team.

## Quotes

* " I was a leader in the team and I needed to understand that it’s not just for me but for the country as well."
* "I am a human being before I am a soccer player. I don’t know too many people who would be able to go through what I went through on a personal and professional level."
* "I had to protect myself and at the end of the day, you have to draw a line."
* "The respect has to be both ways."
* "I was very sad that in this day and age we still have to be fighting. We don’t have to prove anything to anyone and I don’t like this comparison between us and the men’s team."
** 'We don't have to prove anything to anyone' - Banyana's Thembi Kgatlana by Michael Pedro August 18, 2023.Retrieved 04/11/2023.
* “I think we're really strong when we play together as a team and that’s why we get results.”
** Kgatlana: South Africa need to stay hungry by fifa.com July 27, 2023. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
# Sibahle Mtongana

Sibahle Mtongana (born 10 December 1984), professionally known as Siba Mtongana is a South African celebrity chef and television presenter known as the host of the Cooking Channel show Siba's Table.

## Quotes

* Shoo! I would say it’s one of my biggest career highlights to grab the attention of the most sort after, prestigious and world-renowned university, Harvard.
* Spent a good two years researching about my life, upbringing, career and entrepreneur journey, and the case study was published and first lectured to their MBA students in November 2020, and is now part of Harvard Business School academic literature.
** Mama I made it’: Siba Mtongana excited to be featured in top financial magazine, IOL, 24 July 2023 by Alyssia Birjalal

## References

* ↑ Food personality, cook and presenter of food network's Siba's table – SIBA MTONGANA". Good Food and Wine Show. Retrieved 27 July 2014

## External Links

* Siba Mtongana at IMDb
* Siba Motongna at TVSA
# Annie Silinga

Annie Silinga (1910-1984) was a South African anti-pass laws and anti-apartheid political activist. She is known for her role as the Cape Town African National Congress Women's League President, a leader in the 1956 anti-pass Women's March to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa and the only African woman in the 1956 treason trial in South Africa.

## Quotes

* I will never carry a pass!
** Annie Silinga's battle cry written on her grave, sahistory

## External links

* sahistory
# Dora Tamana

Dora Ntloko Tamana (11 November 1901 – 23 July 1983) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.

## Quotes

* You who have no work, speak. You who have no homes, speak. You who have to run like chickens from the vulture, speak. Let us share our problems so that we can solve them together.
** as quoted in Remarks by the Minister Ms Lulu Xingwana MP, on the occasion of the Dulcie September Memorial Lecture at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town
* We must share the problems so that we can solve them together. We must free ourselves. Men and women must share housework...must work together in the home and out in the world. Women must unite to fight for...rights. We have opened the way for you. We must go forward!
** United Women's Organization Opening Speech by Dora Tamana.

## Quotes about Dora Tamana

* Her sustained and brave fight against unjust laws and promoting the rights of workers. She consistently pushed back against the injustices meted out on the disenfranchised.

## External links

* The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa. The Order of Luthuli in Gold awarded to Dora Tamana
# Redi Tlhabi

Redi Tlhabi (née Direko; born 1978) is a South African journalist, producer, author and a former radio presenter. She presented The Redi Tlhabi Show on Radio 702 for over a decade. Her broadcasting career spans years spent at Kaya FM, being a newscaster for the SABC and later, eMedia Holdings owned eNews Channel Africa, eNCA. Tlhabi has an Honours degree in Political Economy and English Literature. She has been a television and radio journalist for the SABC and eTV.

## Quotes

* Winnie was a woman of her times, there was a war and she too was a soldier.
** Quotation about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in her article Those who dwell on Winnie's 'dark side' ignore brutality she endured, by Redi Tlhabi published in w:Times Live on 08 April 2018
* You have been conniving and dishonest in appropriating a sentence from an entire article and placing it as a shout-out for a book that YOU MUST HAVE KNOWN, was the antithesis of what I believe and the complexity that I embrace when analysing historical figures.
** Letter to Tafelberg Publishers in relation to the intentional misuse of the above quote about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on the cover of Truth, Lies and Alibis: The Winnie Mandela Story by Fred Bridgland. Redi Tlhabi rages at Tafelberg Publishers for quote without permission: ‘How dare you?’, News24, 30 Oct 2018
# Miriam Tlali

Miriam Tlali (11 November 1933 – 24 February 2017) was a South African novelist. She was the first black woman in South Africa to publish an English-language novel, Muriel at Metropolitan.

## Quotes
### Muriel at Metropolitan (1975)

* Botswana. It is not called Bechuanaland any more now.
** Muriel's reply to the white employee at the Metropolitan Radio
* I can't stand those voices! Those baboons there, sitting there talking.
** pg. 68
* It was no use trying to speak to him. The long painful years of contact with the whites had developed within him a hard protective core of indifference to all their constant abusive reprimands. He was dead inside, I thought.
** pg. 106
* Don't call me Nanny, your Nanny is looking after your kids at your house.
** pg. 133
* For him as well as Aggripa, this is home. Adam will only leave here when he's a corpse. Where can he go to? He is a "foreign native", a Rhodesian. He has to remain tied to Mr Block for the rest of his life like a slave; he has been sold to him and may not leave him for another master. At least I'm free.
** pg. 146
* And I thought to myself, to think that my poor little niece is not even aware that she is so important. That her innocent request to pay me a visit can be regarded as a threat to the security of the great Republic of South Africa.
** pg. 165
* These damnable laws which dictate to you where, and next to whom, you shall walk, sit, stand and lie... This whole abominable nauseating business of toilets and "separate but equal facilities"... What is one to do anyway? One is forever in a trap from which there is no escape... except suicide...
** Muriel's reaction to the attitude of the Whites towards her
* My handwriting had never looked so beautiful. I had at last decided to free myself of the shackles which had bound not only my hands, but also my soul.
** pg. 190

## External links

* Muriel at Metropolitan
# Rachel Zadok

Rachel Zadok (October 5, 1972) is a South African writer and a Whitbread First Novel Award nominee (2005). She is the author of the novels Gem Squash Tokoloshe and Sister-Sister.

## Quotes

* Human is human. We’re blood, bone, emotion, piss, shit, love. Skin colour shouldn’t be what trips you up as a writer – it’s just skin after all, it’s our experiences while we’re here that are important, and all human beings, regardless of race, are equipped with the capacity for empathy and understanding.
** Rachel Zadok: An interview, 05 June 2013
* First rule of writing is to read everything you can get your hands on to fill your head with ideas. And then, once you have your story down, let it rest. Then revise, revise, revise.
** Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Rachel Zadok, 17 May 2013

### Sister-Sister, Kwela Books, 2013

* We used to believe that the highway went somewhere, that over the horizon was escape, places we'd never been and thought we wanted to go.
* Joe Saviour once told me that every life has a legend. Before the soul comes down to earth, God seals a story inside it. To know your purpose, you need to unravel the mystery of that legend.
* Shame-shame, Thuli's shame, all the same, shame-shame.
* Sizane, you gave your girls the wrong names. Thulisile means 'quiet one' but she talks, talks, talks...
# Gladys Thomas

Gladys Thomas (1934-2022) was a South African poet and playwright. Thomas was one of the first black South African women poets to be published. Her co-authored debut anthology, Cry Rage, was the first book of poetry to be banned in South Africa.

## Quotes

* To write was a need; I had to write down messages, to tell apartheid's horrors.
** Women's day with Gladys Thomas, Julie Marchand, Canalblog, (9 March 2010).
* I always imagined poetry is supposed to be beauty, about beauty and pleasant things. Well I sat in a train one day and saw this lorry full of furniture going, coming here... and I wrote a poem about Group Areas ‘Fall tomorrow.’ In the last stanza I wrote, that the government of that time is going to fall [ ]. This was about the anger. Bringing out all the anger of moving and seeing this people moving and seeing people breaking up their wardrobes and their cupboards because it can’tfit through the doors here.
** Lau78 Life Histories, Sean Field, UCT Libraries, (between December 2009 and January 2010).

## Quotes about person/work

* Rooted in Salt River, Simon’s Town and Ocean View, Gladys Thomas’s narration of the struggle of a nation for freedom challenged the construct of ‘forgotten communities’. She championed the tribulations and triumphs of people who did not have the means to tell their stories in the distinctive and memorable way in which she took up their plight.
** President Cyril Ramaphosa, SAnews.gov.za, (6 April 2022)

## External links

* Gladys Thomas(1944)
# Adelaide Tambo

Adelaide Frances Tambo (née Tshukudu; 18 July 1929 – 31 January 2007) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, political exile, and regarded as a hero of the liberation struggle against apartheid. She was involved in South African politics for five decades and was married to the late Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress (ANC), from 1956 until his death in 1993.

## Quotes

* In Winnie Mandela’s trials and tribulations we have in microcosm the experiences of thousands of wives and mothers of political prisoners and detainees who pass through the dungeons of the apartheid regime. These torments inflicted on one woman are a vivid example of the ruthless persecution to which opponents of racism and apartheid are subjected.
** "Adelaide Tambo on Winnie Mandela, I.D.A.F. News Notes, June 1982"
** Published excerpt of a speech given by Adelaide Tambo on Winnie Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at Haverford College, Pennsylvania to accept the honorary Doctorate of Law bestowed on Mrs Winnie Mandela by the college.

## Quotes about person/work

* Adelaide’s servant-leadership towards marginalised communities under the apartheid state traversed to serving those who were close to her heart and in society’s margins, such as the elderly and children living with disabilities. Adelaide strongly believed in serving all members of society equally, regardless of their socio-economic status.
** "Celebrating iMbokodo and Adelaide Tambo’s legacy, Puleng Segalo and Tinyiko Chauke", Mail & Guardian, 9 August 2021
# Uncle Waffles

Lungelihle Zwane (born 30 March 2000), known professionally as Uncle Waffles, is a Swazi-born DJ and record producer based in South Africa. She is noted for her work in the amapiano genre and her dance abilities, with Billboard describing her as the "princess of amapiano". Her debut single, "Tanzania", reached number one in South Africa, and was certified 7x platinum in South Africa.

## Quotes

* “I tend to use my dance moves to translate the music, so you’re going to see what the song says even if you don’t understand it,”
** Meet Uncle Waffles, the Artist Bringing the South African Amapiano Genre to Coachella, Billboard, 31 March 2023,Heran Mamo, Retrieved: 4 November 2023.
* “This makes me feel the way I’ve always thought my purpose would make me feel,” she says. “It made me feel whole"
** Meet Uncle Waffles, the Artist Bringing the South African Amapiano Genre to Coachella, Billboard, 31 March 2023,Heran Mamo, Retrieved: 4 November 2023.
* “My mom has always been just like, ‘Do it but have a real backup plan.’ Initially, when my life changed, they didn't really understand it was like, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s a good video, okay. Yay. What does that mean?” Uncle Waffles told BET.com during a recent interview. “Now they’re definitely people who actually encourage parents to let their kids pursue things creatively.”
** #Unboxed Vol. 25: Uncle Waffles Is An Amapiano Superstar Setting A Unique Tone and History in the Process, BET, 7 September 2023, Paul Meara, Retrieved: 4 November 2023.
# Shado Twala

Nomshado Twala (born September 10, 1958), professionally known by her stage name Shado Twala is a South African radio DJ, journalist, entrepreneur and radio and television producer best known as a judge on SA's Got Talen
# Zahara (South African musician)

Bulelwa Mkutukana (9 November 1987 – 11 December 2023), best known by her stage name Zahara, was a South African singer and songwriter. Her music was classified loosely as "Afro-soul", and she sang in Xhosa, her native language, as well as in English.

## Quotes
### "VIDEO: Award winning South African afro-soul singer performing at Maple Ridge music fest" (2023)

    VIDEO: Award winning South African afro-soul singer performing at Maple Ridge music fest MARPLE RIDGE- PITT MEADOWS NEWS ,4 August 2023 by Colleen Flanagan
* Till today, I don’t know chords, I don’t know notes, but I can play each and every song that you want me to play
* It’s in me, it’s what I live for. It’s like, something that you can wake me up at 12 a.m. and go and do because it’s in me.
* When I see people jolly, people, like, smiling, at least I know I’ve done something for somebody. They will go home happy, whatever troubles they came with.
* “I chose me first now. I don’t do anything because someone else is doing it.”
# Topaz Page Green

Topaz Page-Green (born in 1979) is a South African fashion model and the founder and president of the non-profit corporation The Lunchbox Fund.

## Quotes

* But when people emotionally connect with what you’re trying to do, or it resonates with them, that’s a huge reward.
** A Fashion-Adjacent Flock at Lunchbox Fund Benefit, The Wall Street Journal, Nov.6 2014
* Food is fundamental to any development, growth or change.
** Topaz Page-Green Hosts Lunchbox Fund Annual Fall Dinner, Yahoo!Life, Oct.16 2018
* When you're fighting for something, it's always a grueling battle.
** A Fashion-Adjacent Flock at Lunchbox Fund Benefit, The Wall Street Journal, Nov.6 2014
# Victoria Gowon

Victoria Hansatu Gowon (22 August 1946– 29 July 1979) was a Nigerian nurse and the third First Lady of Nigeria. She was married to General Yakubu Gowon who was Nigerian Head of State from 1966 to 1975

## Quotes

* Female President is possible if women unite.
* I like to say something, the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has shown us the way to take people as friends, as partners to move the women of Nigeria forward. To be seen as mothers, as helpers. Until we as women unite, we are not going anywhere. We have to unite. We have to remove our differences, it doesn’t matter where you come from or it doesn’t matter who you love, you are a woman, you are a mother
* “At this juncture, I call on women of Nigeria to support Mrs. Tinubu in the office she is today. She has shown that she can help the women of Nigeria, can support the children of Nigeria. And together we will be strong, one day, we will find amongst us, one of us that can be the leader of this country.”
** Victoria calls for women support.
# Amina Abubakar Bello

Amina Abubakar Bello (born in 1973) is the First Lady of Niger State, Nigeria and an obstetrician, gynaecologist and human rights activist.

## Quotes

* Growing up, I knew education was important and from an early age, I knew I had to do a profession, so that shaped how I ended up choosing what I chose.
* Then you are always advised not to decide what you want to do as a profession until you have done your house job, and ‘house job’ means you have to go through all the different departments in medicine. You do surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology. I enjoyed it and it occurred to me that this is where my calling was. And that was how I decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. The rest is history
** Amina shares why she studies gynecology
* Women who shouldn’t die because of childbirth are dying simply because they have not had the care that they desire
** Amina Talks about women who dies during childbirth.
* We have the rich culture of the Nupe people, we have our beautiful dancers and when you see the way they make their cultural clothes, very beautiful to behold. We have a rich history.
** Amina speaks about her culture
* We need to differentiate between religion and our health. We cannot go to Church or Mosque for our pastors and imams to treat us for cancer. Yes, we can pray because it is only God that can cure us, but God has given us the tools that we need to use to get that cure.