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“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.”

Young Weight South University South Africa Young Women Apartheid Johannesburg

Author:Teresa Heinz

“In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'”

Children Sometimes Use Actors Teach Tree Streets South Locals Friendly South Africa Hiv Muppet Hiv Positive

Author:Joan Ganz Cooney

“The export of oil, the export of minerals, will for many decades continue to be a critical part for the growth of African economies. The emphasis is on diversification. We have for many years - not just in South Africa but in many parts of the continent - spoken about beneficiation. And I think part of the secret, in relation to beneficiation, is you have got to make it attractive, profitable for the private sector - and it will take off. You may have to look at mechanisms like tax concessions... You will not have to worry about beneficiation if it makes commercial sense.”

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

Masters Europe Weak India Drinking South Tea South Africa Robbers Tea Drinking

Book:For Love Alone

Source: For Love Alone

“The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.”

World Children Mother Father Nations Memories Youth Son Pride Citizens Daughter South Deeds Honour South Africa

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“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.”

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Author:Rose Bird

“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.”

Ifs Years Whole Would Be Given Position Equal South South Africa Manhood Given Up Suffrage

Author:Jan Smuts

“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.”

People South Defeat Gods Will South Africa Humiliation Brighter Better Future Brighter Days

Author:Jan Smuts

“South Africa needs a second liberation.”

Needs South Liberation South Africa

Author:Robert Mugabe

“I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the white area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point. If the principle of permanent residence for the black man in the area of the white is accepted then it is the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it in this country.”

Ifs Knows Men Believe Ends Country Home Black White Principles Destiny Depends Essentials Areas South Accepted Permanent South Africa Sections Civilisation Residence

Author:P. W. Botha

“The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are English- or German- or Portuguese- or Italian-speaking, or even Jewish-speaking, makes no difference.”

Differences Groups Security Depends South Minorities Italian South Africa Portuguese Minority Groups

Author:P. W. Botha

“We do not want chaos in South Africa.”

Want South Chaos South Africa

Author:P. W. Botha

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

South South Africa Jellyfish

Author:P. W. Botha

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

World Want Red South Hunger Communism South Africa Crocodiles Free World Appease

Author:P. W. Botha

“Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.”

Way Differences Responsible South South Africa

Author:P. W. Botha

“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.”

People Long Ideas Language Religious Groups Special South South Africa Entity Civilisation

Author:P. W. Botha

“There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.”

Break Broken Elements Stomach South Africa Intestines

Author:P. W. Botha

“As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.”

Firsts Humor Funny Awareness South Aids Stuck South Africa Unwilling Lumps Ribbons Dough Embassy

Book:The Hippopotamus

Source: The Hippopotamus

“Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It's a place I want to take my children back to. It's a place that filled me with great joy and inspiration but also sadness. I think it's one of the most complex places on the planet.”

People Thinking Want Children Inspiration Joy Sadness Planets Skins Filled South Complexes My Children South Africa Great Joy Johannesburg

Author:Ryan Phillippe

“When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe. In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California. There's been a tremendous amount of change.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.”

Persons Speak Black White South Characteristics Glorious South Africa Positively Acknowledgement Portuguese

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.”

Accepting Violence Students South Missions South Africa

Author:Wole Soyinka

“The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.”

Thinking Moving Social Consciousness Roles Example Movement Theater South South Africa Apartheid Social Movements

Author:Saul Williams

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

Has Beens Play Language South Officials South Africa

Author:Zakes Mda

“America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned.”

“There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.”

Thinking Feels Wells Courses Effects Wine South California Australia Balanced South Africa Really Great New Zealand Chile Great Wine French Wine Great French

Author:Ridley Scott

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

Country West South South Africa Great Country West Africa

Author:Paris Hilton

“History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.”

“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.”

Stills Real Economic Aspect South Inequality South Africa Saddest Economic Inequality

Author:Naomie Harris

“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.”

Girl Speak Fashion Grew Grew Up South Occasions Beach South Africa

Author:Tanit Phoenix

“Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.”

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

Nations Accepting South Executives Host South Africa Committees Selection Bribe Conjunctions Fifa

Author:Bryan Swanson

“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.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“Let no one doubt, we will defend America's security and the cause of freedom around the world. But we want a president who tells us what America is fighting for, not just what we are fighting against. We want a president who will defend human rights - not just where it is convenient - but wherever freedom is at risk - from Chile to Afghanistan, from Poland to South Africa”

World Want Humans America Fighting Causes President Doubt Rights Risk Security South Human Rights Around The World Afghanistan South Africa Convenient Poland Chile

Author:Geraldine Ferraro

“The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.”

People Action Order Black White Democracy Security Mass Organization Majority South Campaigns Establishment Black And White South Africa Defiance Apartheid Peace And Security

Author:Nelson Mandela

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

Humanity Common Democracy Victory Achievement South South Africa Long Walk To Freedom

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us.”

South Pool Betray Loyal South Africa

Author:Nelson Mandela

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

Country Stories Together Century South Legacy South Africa 21st Century Success Stories

Author:David Cameron

“The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.”

Should Bigs Three Conditions Revolution Should Have Green South Focused South Africa Rice Wheat Green Revolution Maize

Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

Would Be Mental Health South Rate Primaries Insanity South Africa Programmes Rehabilitation

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“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.”

World Has Beens White Millions Organization South Population South Africa

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! [...] The South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people than the United States government!”

“It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace.”

States Government Law United Opinion United States Humorous England Faults South Administration Native South Africa Reverse Harsh Lenient

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.”

Ifs World Way Humans Children Speak Human Beings Results Equal South South Africa Accents Boston

Author:Michel Gondry

“I think the TAC was just a disgrace, a disgrace not only to the [health] department but a disgrace to the whole country. But I think, as South Africa, we really demonstrated that we are doing pretty well.”

Thinking Wells Country Whole South Department South Africa Disgrace

Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

“I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals.”

Knows Want Know How South South Africa Hiv

Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

“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.”

World Giving Country Sticks South Workers Right Thing Injury South Africa Needles Doing The Right Thing Doubtful Health Workers

Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

“Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.”

“Today we are a nation at peace with itself, united in our diversity, not only proclaiming but living out the contention that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We take our place amongst the nations of the world, confident and proud in being an African country.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

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