Africa Quotes

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.

For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

I did do an American pilot, but it wasnt shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called The Philanthropist, and it was for NBC.

This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.

I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me.

Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

I tell you, Bono may have a point. South Africa needs a Walmart.

South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone.

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.

My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.

Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and it's a real good time.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.

South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

Terrorism has essentially become a franchise in the Middle East and North Africa and increasingly in other parts of the world.

I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.

There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.

We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.

While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.

As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.

One of the saddest aspects for me about filming in South Africa was that the real inequalities are still very much in place - and those are economic inequalities.

Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

I've been to North Africa many times.

South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing.

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive...

I am the Mud Hut I Grew Upon

It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.

We are relatives at the village and yet we become strangers in the city