Sibongile Ndashe Quotes
South Africa
Sibongile Ndashe is a South African lawyer and human rights activist.
- South Africa
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I think we need to start using these provisions where women collectively, in solidarity with each other, make disclosures.
Activists must challenge both the bad laws and the bad interpretations, because otherwise institutions mirror member states’ bigotry instead of protecting rights.
Sexuality has nothing to do with other people except the desire to control how others live.
People should not have to choose between living freely online and staying safe.
As feminists, we understand that legal change sometimes activates oppositional forces.
The body is the place where all struggles are located
Queer people are especially exposed, because when your existence [as a queer person] has to be kept secret, every leak becomes a threat to your safety, sometimes your life.
The question is why, after independence, do we still hold onto laws that were designed to oppress us?
They will see that slavery, for example, is wrong, and it should be attributed to the state. But they will say the sexual violence that came with slavery cannot be attributed to the state.
The law is not always right. Our work is to guarantee that the law is just, that it delivers justice
We are flawed humans. We try to build; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work. We learn where we have made mistakes, but we must always be gentle with ourselves...That's what we owe ourselves.
The work of stopping people from spreading hate and upholding colonial-era laws that harm is hard, but necessary
People must be respected regardless of who they are
We do deserve to have an organization that focuses on gender and sexuality and to be intentional about it to the point of just exclusively dealing with those two issues.
The idea that someone loses their legal protection because of sexual orientation is not sound law
Feminism is much more needed today, as it was needed when the suffrage movement started
A continent that emerged from slavery, colonialism, and all of these other isms should better understand what oppression means
The only thing that often gets labeled as un-African is sexual orientation
When courts fail to interpret correctly, the law stops making sense
The emotional cost of this work is extremely high