Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Quotations

I'm certainly hoping that all the recommendations that we have heard will be implemented.

They've participated extensively in this conference and they are doing their best to help.

We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working.

They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

Equality for women is progress for all.

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.

We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing to produce the people that are not going to be the drivers of industrialisation. So that needs the discipline of both training institutions and policies that drive our people to industrialisation.

Educate a woman, you educate a nation,

My mother always told me that inaction is not an option. And neither is going it alone.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.