South Africa Quotes

What is South Africa’s sound? What are they supposed to bring that ignites the rest of the body of Christ around the globe?

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.

South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

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.

It's a big problem in South Africa up to this day: many people want to open factories, they want to invest, but then they discover that they don't have the skilled people to employ.

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.

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

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.

I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to.

In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was happening in South Africa and Namibia.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of organizations to which donors can give and claim tax deductions.

I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a huge talent. In all the games he had played I think he didn't concede any goal.

I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.

There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults!

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

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.

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.

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

South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.

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.

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

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

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

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

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.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.

Too many people have died so unnecessarily; AIDS is completely preventable, yet it's killing more kids in South Africa then everything else, and that's just not how it should be.

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.