Nasiphi Moya's journey from rural upbringing to deputy mayor highlights resilience, determination, and self-discovery.
Nasiphi Moya's journey from rural upbringing to deputy mayor highlights resilience, determination, and self-discovery.
“I was very happy growing up, saying I grew up poor would be an insult to my family’s efforts. My parents did the best they could. I didn’t know of their struggles at the time.”Accept whatever gift is given Moya said growing up, she hated combing her hair. “My father took me to town to get my hair cut, but we did not calculate this one and I went to school looking like a boy,” she said.“My sister didn’t pass down her old clothes to me. We shared a school uniform and mixed and matched,” she explained. At school, she realised she was different.
“I took intro to philosophy and intro to politics. I fell in love with politics in the first lecture,” she said. “From encyclopedias to textbooks. I couldn’t believe there was so much information. Where I come from libraries didn’t exist. I did not know about the existence of a library until I walked into UCT as an 18 year old,” she said.“You can’t build organisations on whether people will agree with me or not. When we build organisations, it’s long-term. You don’t build institutions for yourself, you build them for the future,” she said.
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