South Africa Quotes

They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me.

The matter of people being attracted to other countries is a permanent problem in my view, it doesn't only face South Africa. A whole lot of countries in the world are faced with this problem.

A democratic government in South Africa is not a threat to white people.

The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe. The matter of who governs the people of South Africa is in the hands of the people of South Africa.

South Africa has faced many problems in the past. You would understand those problems if you understood the history of the struggle to get rid of Apartheid and the struggle to establish democracy.

I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument.

Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going.

The public service needs lots of people, South Africa generally, needs lots of people.

The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

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

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

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.