That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“A Favorite start to a book [sorry it's long!]: "In yesterday’s Sunday Times, a report from Francistown in Botswana. Sometime last week,… — Coetzee Copy Share Image
South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Having a Facebook and Twitter profile allows me to keep more in touch with people, particularly young South Africans and those who… — Helen Zille Copy Share Image
“There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it has been there from… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It was the South African Government that has introduced politics into sport by decreeing politically that no non-white person will represent their… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You're a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
“A truly enlightened attitude to language should simply be to let six thousand or more flowers bloom. Subcultures should be allowed to… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Let me teach you to greet someone in one out of the 11 South African official languages: in Isizulu, by saying Hi,… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
We had South African accents. I was a vegan. I was raised without religion. I was just the weirdest kid in this… — Madelaine Petsch Copy Share Image
My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political — because you are dealing with people who… — Zakes Mda Copy Share Image
It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I led the fight here against apartheid as President of the ACTU, including particularly the Springbok tour in 1971. And that led… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
