South africa Quotes · Page 13

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

— Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

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

I had an opportunity to hit tennis balls with Billie Jean King when she was in South Africa when I was 11.…

— Ilana Kloss

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa,…

— Athol Fugard

I believe that here in South Africa, with all our diversities of colour and race; we will show the world a new…

— Albert Lutuli

“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

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

— St. Lucia

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

— Rachel Holmes

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 am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our…

— Paul Boateng

“The compartment was now completely full. Looking out to the passageway through the inside window, I could see a German soldier standing…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed inspection as a means of creating confidence…

— Hans Blix

America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America…

— Trevor Noah

With better education and affluence there have been more Egyptians interested in nature. There are now more Egyptian divers, desert safari enthusiasts…

— Mindy Baha El Din

“Kamishna … karibu," alisema Nafi huku akisimama na kutupa gazeti mezani na kuchukua karatasi ya faksi, iliyotumwa. "Ahsante. Kuna nini …" "Kamishna,…

— Enock Maregesi

We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have…

— Charles Eisenstein

Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced…

— Melissa Sue Anderson

“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos…

— Steven Biko

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

— Antony Sher

I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

The public service needs lots of people, South Africa generally, needs lots of people.

— Thabo Mbeki

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with…

— Brian Eno

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

— P. W. Botha

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

— Nicky Oppenheimer

I was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, but I live in New York City.

— Topaz Page-Green

Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only…

— Gabriel Iglesias

The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.

— Jacob Zuma

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

— Desmond Tutu

I'd visited South Africa even before I started playing for Portugal, because I used to come here with my brother when I…

— Eusebio

When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

— Anonymous