Name: Marlene le Roux
Age: 51 years old
Birthplace: Wellington
Language: Afrikaans and English
Interview language: English
Occupation: CEO: ARTSCAPE
Location: Artscape, Cape Town
Democracy Quote: “Until we don’t address poverty, equal education, looking after our elderly and looking after persons with disability, we have never arrived”
Marlene le Roux, from Wellington, was born in 1967, she was 3 months old when she contracted polio. Le Roux comes from a background of farmworkers, domestic workers. She says she is very proud to say she comes from people that cared for each other.
Le Roux has high hopes for South Africa and the arts, the coming of democracy for South Africa has given her hope as a woman.
Le Roux rates that South Africa’s democracy is “yellow” because we are on a journey as a country.
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Multimedia Manager at SABC News · Wits - University of the Witwatersrand