We are better because Mama Winnie existed. As a result, we have a collective responsibility to ensure that her name and her contribution to the struggle for liberation is immortalised by renaming the Cape Town International Airport after Mama Winnie. We say this because we want to underscore this point that Mama Winnie, as a reminder, was a fearless freedom fighter, who brought her superlative courage to the struggle during the darkest hours of oppression. She was a colossus that bestrode the lives of the poor and downtrodden, shielding them from the vicious onslaught of the apartheid regime. In fact, nowhere is her unconquerable soul more succinctly captured than in William Ernest Henley's poem, Invictus, when he says: