Dipuo Peters
Elizabeth Dipuo Peters is a South African politician who has served on several political positions including as minister of Transport, Member of provincial Executive in Northern Cape, deputy chairperson of the ANC in Northern Cape and Secretary of Women Affairs in the African National Congress Youth League.
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[edit]- It is a clear mindset shift from producing job-seeking graduates towards enterprising and job-creating graduates
- I did not want to be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency
- There is also the right to my good name
- Dipuo Peters takes Parliament to court 25 January, 2024
- co-operatives are a viable business model, both in terms of providing livelihoods, food; housing, access to credit facilities etc; as well to grow and transform the economy
- We don’t want a finger pointing exercise
- we especially need to think about the economic empowerment of women through co-operatives, not because it is women’s month, but because women own only 20% of the economy, and our economy will never grow unless we address economic exclusion and barriers to entry.
- Deputy Minister Dipuo Peters: Co-Operatives Policy Dialogue 30 August, 2023
- Aviation is one of those industries that have not had black participation in business for ages
- In every part of the world, the church and the state co-exist
- When the church is deeply rooted in the community and its membership operates as public servants in every facet of life, our societies will be transformed for the better.
- Everything rises and falls on leadership
- If mercy rewrote the future of Nineveh, we as the government of South Africa believe that the future of South Africa can also be rewritten
- Its about time that churches rise up and take their rightful position in the society, to become the church Christ expect it to be. For the time is closer until the coming of Jesus Christ and the church must be ready.
- Together, motorists, passengers and pedestrians, we can put a stop to this. If we all work together and obey all the rules of the road, without exception – we can stop this carnage on our roads
- Minister Dipuo Peters sends condolences on passing of children in Warden 13 November, 2015
- As a transport family, we are truly the heartbeat of the economy.
- that transport networks are the arteries of the economy, moving people to the workplace and goods to the marketplace
- Indeed winning is not always a victory and Losing is not always a defeat
- Minister Dipuo Peters: 2015 Transport Awards 30 October, 2015
- good political relations with other countries South Africa has need to translate into economic benefit for our country
- Thus, at a time when some countries in the North are dreaming up schemes to build physical walls to separate neighbours and raising barbed wire fences to keep people out, we are standing in a small village in rural Southern Africa to celebrate the construction of a road and bridge that connects communities and opens up opportunities for people
- This road, bridge and border post stand as tangible examples of what have been achieved when neighbours in the region decide to work together rather than putting up barriers
- Minister Dipuo Peters: Opening of Swartkopfontein road and bridge 7 November, 2016
- history is on our side and that we shall rise to the challenge of transforming this sector
- As government also, we have not created enough platform for every one of us to make their voice heard and their effort galvanized
- We have come to see enforcement and education as tools and functions that we can invoke at one point and revoke at another, leaving us with a culture that says; to us life matters on some days and not necessarily on others
- We cannot distance ourselves from the plight of our people when they extend their hands and seek our intervention to better the lives of others
- as community members we can do our bit to contribute towards protecting and enhancing human rights of those who are vulnerable and less fortunate
- We know that to deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity
- It is my desire that all South Africans should emulate Tata Madiba and Mme Mpho Mazamane and do something good for those who are less fortunate than them as we have learnt from our fore-bearers