South Africa Quotes

South Africa Quote of the day

What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.

Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.

South Africa needs a second liberation.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them.

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?'

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation - without denying that certain issues exist.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

We do not want chaos in South Africa.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

The ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back.

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if South Africa was xenophobic.

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

I LOVE Africa in general, South Africa and West Africa. They are both great countries.

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute.

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

We can change South Africa on the rugby field

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.