In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother…

In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C.…

— Bernice King

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

— Noam Chomsky

“The genius of apartheid was convincing people who were the overwhelming majority to turn on each other. Apart hate, is what it was. You…

— Trevor Noah

Before 1994, many South Africans used theater as a voice of protest against the government. But with the end of apartheid, like the artists…

— John Kani

I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness…

— Athol Fugard

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

— Rachel Holmes

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was…

— Hans Blix

The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid…

— Saul Williams

The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass…

— Nelson Mandela

I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and…

— Bob Hawke

In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week.…

— John Pilger

In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their…

— Noam Chomsky

I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South…

— Lisa Madigan

“I don't think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron that recent…

— Justin Cartwright

South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since…

— Nelson Mandela