Always Quote by Justin Cartwright

I thought that, post-apartheid, there would be absolutely no interest in South Africa. That has been both true and untrue. The major writers like…

— Justin Cartwright

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

— Alan Paton

“If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political — because you are dealing with people who lead political…

— Zakes Mda

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

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage…

— Alexandra Fuller

I write about the human condition, as a South African. I sometimes see South Africa with the spectacles of the past and there will…

— John Kani

“Why are you always filming people?” “I’m busy documenting a thousand stories about Johannesburg.” “Oral histories?” “No, stories. People don’t always speak the truth.”

— Harry Kalmer

Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were closed that…

— John Kani

I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.

— Lauren Beukes

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at…

— Richard Branson

“I don't think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron that recent…

— Justin Cartwright

The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto…

— Adam Hochschild