Apartheid Quote by Nelson Mandela

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

— Susan Rice

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

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

The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass…

— Nelson Mandela

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

“Don’t let anyone tell you that Apartheid has nothing to do with South Africa now. Those roots run deep and tangled and we’ll be…

— Lauren Beukes

There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy requires determined…

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Henry Rollins

There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

— Oliver Tambo

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

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

— Jonathan Kozol