Sibongile Ndashe Quotes
South Africa
Sibongile Ndashe is a South African lawyer and human rights activist.
- South Africa
- Activists
- Lawyers
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I knew I was a feminist, but I didn’t think that my life would be defined by my work with feminism
One of the biggest things I think that I learned was that creating healthy boundaries for myself was important, that I’m not doing anyone a better service by doing more than what I can.
What is becoming very clear is that, even though we are saying that these cases should be based on a power analysis, legal access actually defines who has got the power and who can exercise the power.
Intergenerational kind of organizing and working is hard but when it happens it’s very beautiful
The Constitution is really informed by what activists, including LGBT activists, went through under apartheid
Africa is not economically weak, we have the resources, we are just squandering them, and that is what creates the illusion of dependency
What we need are binding legal obligations on State Parties to the African Charter and on the tech companies themselves to hold them accountable
When we win, we win, but when we lose it really hurts
Tech-facilitated gender-based violence is real and it is everywhere: cyberstalking, revenge pornography, blackmail, image harvesting from dating sites, nonconsensual, explicit deepfakes
There were no cases on women’s human rights and cases that could have been about women’s human rights were not
We live in a reality where being African for some groups means discrimination against women, justified in the name of culture, and hate continues to intensify against queer people
The idea that anything is African or un-African is a bad faith description because there are so many practices we do, that did not start from the continent, yet they are never stigmatized
What we need is to turn inward: accountable governments, freedom from corruption, institutions that actually serve African people and I mean all African people. That is the foundation. Everything else is a distraction.
South Africa was one of the last countries to be freed from colonialism, but across the continent we see that patriarchy has entrenched colonial frameworks
I wish that for people who are starting in this profession. The ability to trust, the ability to see who is there to hold our hand and to understand what they are holding our hands for