"Thank you,Mr Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. One of my favourite books is Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office. This is in response to what you told me earlier in the morning when you urged me to be a good example to the girls,the younger ones who are doing their first term. Mr Speaker, if they are good girls, they will never get the corner office. Be as bad as Millie Odhiambo and you will be the mother of this House. I am a bad girl and as a bad girl I am here serving my fourth term.
So do not be cheated like in the African culture where you are told to have decorum, dress nicely, be kind and nice. You will go nowhere. Be a bad girl like me and you will get somewhere."
South Africa's Bok Women defeat Kenya 22-0 to win the 2025 Rugby Africa Women's Sevens Championship.
They have won the trophy four years in a row. They are the most successful team in the tournament with 13 trophies.
The South African government claims that GBV can’t be declared a national disaster because there are frameworks that have been put in place to counteract GBV and femicide. The SAME frameworks have not produced any results, but instead, we see cases of GBV rise by the day.
In case you weren’t aware, people in Sudan are being set on fire, villages are being completely wiped out, civilians are being executed in broad daylight, women are being sexually violated in front of their own families.
in south africa, a woman is murdered every 2.25 hours, a woman is raped every 12 minutes, a girl child is sexually assaulted every 17 minutes. you are statistically more likely to be raped than to be employed, especially if you are a woman in this country.