I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
South Africa has faced many problems in the past. You would understand those problems if you understood the history of the struggle… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends… — Tanit Phoenix Copy Share Image
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
When was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When I was 10 I went to the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, which is this idyllic Harry Potter-esque music boarding school in… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“Here was a temporary solution. Parole would get Mofokeng and Mokoena out of jail as quickly as possible. Other details could be… — Jeremy Gordin Copy Share Image
From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
It [also] lives on its history, now, to some extent: its achievements [ of the Commonwealth] in Rhodesia and South Africa, which… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The reports from the scientific world are that, there is very sadly an escalating impact of HIV and Aids in South Africa.… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“Given that the doubtless unsuspecting taxpayers of South Africa provided every diplomat abroad with free housing, a foreign service allowance (in addition… — Tony Leon Copy Share Image
We want to clean up South Africa so that we can begin to make it more attractive to investors but at the… — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The Blue Train in South Africa is fantastic. You start your journey in a VIP lounge where you have your own individual… — Chris Tarrant Copy Share Image
In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
“Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Alex Hales has tightened up his game from South Africa and learned about Test cricket. It's great when you see someone who… — Alastair Cook Copy Share Image
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
It was a remarkable relationship. Margaret [Thatcher] and I had a love/hate relationship. She was always defending the South African regime and… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while… — Tanit Phoenix Copy Share Image
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
I grew up during apartheid; there was never a day in South Africa that was just great. I love that I've had… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent.… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
![“It [also] lives on its history, now, to some extent: its achievements [ of the Commonwealth] in Rhodesia and South Africa, which were enormous. And they'll live on that for some time, I guess. And there is still - I'm out of touch with it now, of course - but I still think there is a degree of…” quote by Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/058/bob-hawke-7891_achievement_it-also-lives-on-its-history-now-to-some_943443.jpg)
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