Difficult Quote by Hugh Masekela

South Africa has faced many problems in the past. You would understand those problems if you understood the history of the struggle to get…

— Thabo Mbeki

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want…

— Steven Biko

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the…

— Joe Slovo

I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically,…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

— Henry Rollins

I think South Africa would be in a lot worse position had you not had visionaries like the Mandelas or the Oliver Tambos or…

— Uzodinma Iweala

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape…

— Athol Fugard

I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.

— Letta Mbulu

South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that…

— Mamphela Ramphele

When I was in government, the South African economy was growing at 4.5% - 5%. But then came the global financial crisis of 2008/2009,…

— Thabo Mbeki

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's…

— Harry Oppenheimer