Beacon of resilience

KWADUKUZA'S Privi Makhan stands tall as a leader, beacon of resilience and unwavering commitment to her cause of liberating her community.

- SIPHO JACK

As a ward councillor and the DA's caucus leader in the KwaDukuza municipality, she embodies a deep-rooted determination to achieve clean governance. Her life's motto centres around resilience and firmness, and she's not merely a politician but someone who is eager to change narratives for ordinary South Africans.

"My drive comes from wanting to create a safer, dignified space and ensuring that the communities we live in reflect freedom, fairness, opportunity and diversity," she says.

Her father has instilled the belief that the country should ultimately work for all its citizens and she fondly recalls queuing alongside him while he waited to vote in the first democratic elections, in 1994.