When you are an artist you are telling your story and other people stories…As a South African, when I had the platform to sing, I took it as a platfo… - Yvonne Chaka Chaka

While I was growing up, every young person in Soweto knew that the system was wrong… the system was incorrect, that situation put us in a position of not sitting down and expecting things to change, we had to fought so had to be able to acquire quality education.

I think believing in myself and knowing what I wanted. From day one, when Phil Hollis came to me and said he wanted to make me a superstar, I knew I wanted to do things my way. And even after 33 years, I still do it my way. I never allowed anybody to take me for granted. I thought, if it's meant to be, it's meant to be: I'm not going to sleep with any man to be a superstar, I'm not going to sell myself cheap, I'm not going to allow anybody to overrun me. If I didn't know things, if there was a contract I wasn't sure about, I took it to a lawyer to explain it to me, but I always made the decision. I've always been this very assertive girl

My late mother was my everything, she was not that educated but she was ahead of her time… She didn’t give us everything that we wanted but she gave us everything that we needed, and she always insisted that we must go to school and inspire ourselves with skills so that nobody can take us for granted.