Lindiwe Patricia Hendrick, 37, Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town. “I am powerful. I just dream all the time. I’m powerful in my mind.”

Nobantu Mabusela, 76, Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town. “I feel brave because I raised my three children on my own, and I was alone, without my husband.”

Thembelihle Dunga, 26, Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town. “I feel safe when I’m not on the street after 6 o’clock and not walking at night.”

Chante Daniels, 16, Eldorado Park Estates, Johannesburg. “Where I stay is a suburb of Eldos, it’s been cut off from the rest of the places in South Africa. There’s only one way in and one way out. “

Cindy Daniels, 32, Eldorado Park, Johannesburg. “I had to fit in, deal with all of your teenage pressure, which seemed trivial. I was trying to do trigonometry while I was breastfeeding.”

Fezeka Ntuli, 20, Nelspruit. “I think just knowing that I look beautiful, really makes me feel powerful.”

Lindiwe Matshikiza, 26, Troyeville, Johannesburg. “I was born in London, lived in Zimbabwe, Jo’burg, Pretoria, Grahamstown, Capetown and back to Jo’burg. My parents were in exile.”

Busisiwe Nhlapo, 19, East Rand, Johannesburg. “I do see myself doing a good job if given a position to run things, not necessarily as the president but maybe as a minister in the department of justice.”

Nokuzola Dunywa, 50, Rivonia, Johannesburg. “I’ve always been wondering why is this country called a ‘third world’ country.”