South africa Quotes · Page 9

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

— Noam Chomsky

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

— Christina Stead

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the…

— David Cameron

'Africa shall be saved.' I heard God's message so clearly. In response, my family moved from Lesotho to South Africa in 1974.

— Reinhard Bonnke

“Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.”

— Ian Martin

“We need a change of attitude, because let's face it, no one’s going to change color”

— Jaco Strydom

When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for…

— Ban Ki-moon

“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Historians and journalists always have agendas, but if I want to find out what's going on in South Africa, I read Nadine…

— Justin Cartwright

I try not to get too political. But coming from South Africa, where apartheid was a huge problem, and there was lots…

— Kevin Anderson

My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to…

— Rachel Holmes

There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super…

— St. Lucia

The Cape Epic is unpredictable. In South Africa, it's scorching hot one minute, then super-windy or rainy the next, so you have…

— Nino Schurter

Having a Facebook and Twitter profile allows me to keep more in touch with people, particularly young South Africans and those who…

— Helen Zille

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so…

— Desmond Tutu

The export of oil, the export of minerals, will for many decades continue to be a critical part for the growth of…

— Patrice Motsepe

In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a…

— Robert Ringer

You have to remember that although Gandhi and Churchill only met physically once, their paths crossed again and crossed again all over…

— Arthur L. Herman

South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime…

— Noam Chomsky

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily…

— Lee Ritenour

“Have you a room that you could let?" "Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want…

— Alan Paton

I want people to understand that, look, we're in a period of democratic deficit, democratic recession. There are fewer democracies in the…

— David Frum

Criminal trials are fundamentally about individual accountability whereas truth commissions are less about the guilt of the perpetrator and more about the…

— Payam Akhavan

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.

— Kevin Pietersen

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

— Zakes Mda

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

— Thabo Mbeki

I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals.

— Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

If you ever look at my history of coaching in South Africa, no team has ever gone down. And I'm talking about…

— Bruce Grobbelaar

I did a lot of ramp modelling in South Africa and Hong Kong, when models were free to dance and walk on…

— Bob Christo

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

— Jacob Zuma

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild…

— Athol Fugard

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who…

— Nelson Mandela

Playing for South Africa is an absolute honour, and I don't feel like I need to relax. Every game I take more…

— Imran Tahir

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

— Oliver Tambo

I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main…

— Manfred Mann

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

— Jacob Zuma

Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and…

— Robert Englund

We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon…

— Desmond Tutu