“Friendship is a very, very underestimated and underutilised aspect of politics.”

“As long as there’s not the human dignity that we fought for, the inclusivity that we speak about, the struggle will continue.”

“Women opened their gates, women opened their houses, they hid children. When police came and said we saw the children running into the yard. The women would stand at the gate and say not in my yard.”

“Women knew exactly what they wanted, and if you look at the Western Cape, women were very central in the political history of the province.”

“South Africa refused me a passport. I know how it feels to be stateless, I was angry, because I was born in South Africa and my great, great grandfather was the king of Amampondo.”

“Every political family had to suffer.”

“You can kill me here and you can hit me all you want, but you must know that there is a million Shahida’s out there.”

“The police beat me and dragged me until I was unconscious, and how do you recover from that. After that my life was just only one track. I had to be part of the people who were trying to change all that.”