Wendy Gumede

Wendy Gumede is an artist, comedian, screenwriter, and actress from South Africa.She started making YouTube comedy skits in 2016 while studying Film and TV Production at the University of Cape Town. Quotes It’s really important to not forget our values, to understand your stance and voice and be able to interrogate it and learn from it. As part of the human experience, it’s important to voice our opinions and have them challenged and learn from other people’s opinions. It’s important to find ourselves in safe spaces where we can communicate our opinions and have them challenged Wendy Gumede continues to shine from, Zulu voice-overs to writing, and now her first long-term ambassadorship,IOL,by Oluthando Keteyi. The most beautiful thing about being a woman in South Africa is the audacity that we as women have, to still show up for ourselves and others in a country that seeks to stifle us. I feel that the movement of gender equality is more so in campaigns and in conversations rather than in actual implementation. Young girls are boxed and socialized into a set of identities before they can form their own. The more girls see people who look like them breaking barriers, the more likely it is th It’s important that this generation and the next understands that when their names are called, when they achieve any feat, when they get hired and chosen to grab a seat at the table – none of that is a favour. They belong there. As women, we march and we campaign and we plead. But as long as rapists and people who’ve committed femicide still roam freely after they’ve committed these crimes – I’m not sure any number of protests or campaigns will ever truly change things. Being a woman in South Africa means looking over your shoulder, going out and wondering if you’ll make it back, being afraid of your own lover, your own father… a month in our honor is not enough when we live in fear all year round. I have come to realize that the only way women can rise above it is by living their own truth and doing what they want to do, becoming who they want to become and creating their own rules GLAMOUR Women’s Month Series: Wendy Gumede,August 12, 2020, by Arthur Mukhari Category:Living people Category:Artist Category:Actresses by country Category:Actresses from South Africa