Sharon Letlape

Biography

Molebogeng Sharon Letlape is a South African politician from the Economic Freedom Fighters. Since November 2023 she has been a member of the National Assembly of South Africa.

Quotes

• I told him that I was there as an individual with the responsibility and mandate to do oversight in entities of government, and he still refused
• He was so arrogant that he pointed me with fingers and said he is the station commander, and I am going to do what he says; he got his ways of doing things, and I am going to listen to him
• You look at the crime history of these stations, and we try to go in and zoom in to what could be the challenges that make the services of SAPS so imperfect that even the communities lose trust in SAPS. And this is what you get
• As I am getting a briefing, she gets a call to say you must stop that briefing and you must not allow her in the premises; that’s an instruction from the province
  • Sharon Letlape on being chased out of police station during oversight visit
• Women have always been at the centre of the revolution. Let us honour them, and place them in the place they deserve in history
• South Africa is no different. Standing head and shoulders as a fearless force for liberation, Mama Winnie Mandela remains an inspiring tale of a woman who, during the most conservative of eras, confronted male Afrikaner soldiers and inspired military men and youth to fight for freedom
• The role of women has always been far more than the reproductive labour that all seem to think is simply what women should do in times of struggle
  • Sharon Letlape writes on the role of women in revolution