South African Quotes · Page 5

I find it terribly distracting in movies when people do accents, I must say, unless it's terribly serious and the story is…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

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

— Saul Williams

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an…

— Laila Lalami

Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting…

— Simphiwe Dana

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

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

— Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

Mandela was chosen as a symbol of the South African struggle, and he did that great. But I wasn't just happy for…

— Hugh Masekela

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

— Bernice King

There is a tendency just to talk about foreign investors. Over 80 per cent of new investment in the South African economy…

— Thabo Mbeki

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

— Nelson Mandela

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth…

— Miriam Makeba

“South African history did not start in 1652.”

— Nick Wood

In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African…

— Bernice King

I am more South African than Pakistani now. It's a great country, and I have met so many nice people.

— Imran Tahir

If Franschhoek has a fault, it is in the lavish refurbishment of wine farms and estates which has reached absurd proportions. Some,…

— Justin Cartwright

I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres,…

— St. Lucia

“His day is done. Is done. The news came on the wings of a wind, reluctant to carry its burden. Nelson Mandela’s…

— Maya Angelou

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

— Hans Blix

I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints…

— Thabo Mbeki

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

— Dave Matthews

Certainly we must combine forces . South African troops are within the country.We raised this matter with Mrs [Margaret] Thatcher and Lord…

— Robert Mugabe

At first I found it really hard using three different English accents: South African, faking the American, faking the accent required by…

— Charlize Theron

The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and…

— Kandyse McClure

“Although few people will remember 3 June 1993, it was a landmark in South African history. On that day, after months of…

— Nelson Mandela

“What would happen if most people tried to act intelligently on their own behalf? Anarchy. (....) So what can we do with…

— Alasdair Gray