South African Quote by Jacques Pauw

“The problem with the recent history of crime intelligence is this: there is little honour, no moral compass, a complete lack of integrity. And…

— Jacques Pauw

“Throughout all the years that I lived in South Africa, people were to call me a fool for refusing to live life the way…

— Mark Mathabane

This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything…

— Justin Cartwright

“Crime sucked the lifeblood from the new South Africa like a deadly leech, leaving it debilitated and wracked by fear and insecurity.”

— Misha Glenny

Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived…

— John Ruskin

“Africa would have been the greatest continent, if it wasn’t for greedy people. Thieves who masquerade themselves as politicians. They all find their moral…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as…

— Achille Mbembe

“They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care…

— Jonathan Swift

“A problem with us South Africans is our lack of integrity and patriotism. Some of us will do anything for money, even selling out…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to…

— Samuel Butler

“But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.”

— Tahir Shah

The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But…

— William Topaz McGonagall