At the end of my life, they will put on my tombstone: ‘She did not take a government car! - Mary Burton

Picking bathroom taps is of little interest to me, but it has to be done

“I feel more hopeful with the new government,” she says. “What with competent people slowly, terribly slowly, being put into place. But it’s awful how long it takes. Getting rid of people who are – or have been – complicit in corruption seems to be difficult to do. I suppose there has to be proof, and that takes a long time. But there doesn’t seem to be enough urgency about the economic and social conditions of the poor. I think that is the trouble.

What will they do to make reparations for those who suffered so much in the past?” she says“Because without something being done – both symbolic and real – reconciliation is going to be very difficult.”