Lyndall Shope-Mafole
Lyndall Fanisa Shope-Mafole (née Shope; born 1957 or 1958) is a South African politician and former civil servant who was the general secretary of the Congress of the People (COPE) from 2014 to 2019. She led COPE's caucus in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 2009 until 2014, when she failed to gain re-election.
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[edit]- We will be allowing people to compete, but based on a common highway.
- You see, what we will be having with the undersea cable, it's like having, as I indicated, it's like when you put the highway, and then you are saying, OK, whether you are a taxi or a bus or an individual, [indistinct] use the highway you'll be able to do this.
- we have to make sure that there is that common highway. And the reason why it's important to work together on that common highway is that it's very, very expensive just for one company to do it alone, and this is why you have a situation, for example what we have now, where you have subsidy, and in South Africa it was only Telkom that invested in it, it becomes expensive.
- what you are doing is everybody invests a little bit and everybody benefits from that collective investment, and the different companies are then able to compete using that same infrastructure that everyone else has kind of contributed to.
- We differ on some things, we agree on other things, but we are always discussing. I knew that my family would understand and accept why I did that because our family is a truly democratic family.”
- We are still fighting for the freedom to live, for the freedom to work. In short, we still don’t have economic freedom.”
- The fact that you can live anywhere you want, educate your child in any school, take part in any sport and work wherever your qualifications allow you to work”
- The right to have a country is one of the most important ones. Being unable to say ‘This is my country, my flag, my anthem’ was the most depressing thing when I was growing up.
- We are still struggling, trying to fight for the freedom that will see everybody being at a level where there is no woman who goes to their neighbour to ask for sugar, that there is no woman whose children are half-dressed because there is no money to buy them clothing,”
- As it is now, we have sort of become a bit dependent on the situation and yet women of our country used to stand up and fight whatever was the problem and quite a number of times we succeeded.
