“The reports from the scientific world are that, there is very sadly an escalating impact of HIV and Aids in South Africa. And it’s from what I have read assuming distinct characteristics which were atypical of how this phenomenon had developed in the States and therefore this meant that we look at what it is that results in all of this, specific to our country.” WorldLooksCountryStatesResultsParticularImpactAssumingSouthAidsInstanceOur CountryCharacteristicsReportsPhenomenonSouth AfricaSevereHivEscalating Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore in the South African HIV and AIDS programme, that it will say that part of what we have got to do is to make sure that our health infrastructure, our health system is able to deal adequately with all of the illnesses that are a consequence of AIDS.” AbleCausesDealsConsequenceSouthIllnessAidsMedicalSouth AfricaInfrastructureHivImmuneTextbooksDeficiencyProgrammesHealth System Author:Thabo Mbeki
“In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us] Central America, South Africa, the Middle East, all U.S.-backed terrorism. That's one of the reasons why it disappeared from history and why the standard line is that Bush 43 declared the war on terror. Actually he just repeated what Reagan had said 20 years earlier.” IfsYearsLooksSaidWarReasonFactsAmericaLinesMiddleStandardsSouthTerrorTerrorismEastTerroristReason WhyMassiveMiddle EastSouth AfricaWar On TerrorWar On TerrorismCentral America Author:Noam Chomsky
“Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or "Umbrella" or whatever "revolutions", some more coups, "regime changes", direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South Africa and what is left of the Latin American revolutions. There would be plenty of torture in "secret centers", but it would not be as advertised and glorified as it would be if [Donald] Trump were elected.” IfsWorldHappensWould BeLeftSecretColorRevolutionTrumpDirectClintonSouthChinaRussiaPlentyPropagandaTortureIranLatinRegimesSouth AfricaWarfarePresidencyExceptionalInvasionLatin AmericaBombingAmerican RevolutionUmbrellaCoupsLatin AmericanSponsorshipRegime Change Author:Andre Vltchek
“South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.” WorldLittlesWholeDarkSouthDepthBottomWhole WorldSouth AfricaHallways Author:Watkin Tudor Jones
“I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.” YearsFirstsNamesBlackNumbersKnownEnemyHeardMediaSouthMythSouth AfricaSecrecyApartheidRumoursPublic EnemiesMadiba Author:Kumi Naidoo
“There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out!” HomeMy OwnLike YouPleaseSouthBreadHotelSouth AfricaToasts Author:Oprah Winfrey
“Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.” WellsLooksStillsProblemHappenedMiddleUnionsSouthEastDecadesFormerSovietMiddle EastSouth AfricaSoviet UnionBreakthroughSetbackUnthinkable Author:Dalai Lama
“I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.” KnowsFeelsCultureSouthSouth Africa Author:Charlize Theron
“I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.” PeopleThinkingBelieveCountryAbleFunctionSouthRaisedSouth Africa Author:Charlize Theron
“I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.” IdeasSexFeltCommunityWhiteTalkingIdentityComfortableSouthPrivilegeSouth AfricaPrivilegedPreferenceOur Community Author:Charlize Theron
“It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.” Has BeensImpossibleSouthAidsAffectedSouth AfricaHiv Author:Charlize Theron
“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.” PeopleShouldKidsDiedSouthKillingAidsSouth Africa Author:Charlize Theron
“Before I was a vegetarian, I traveled to South Africa and hung out there for a little bit. And they had different animals - did you know different parts of the world have different animals? Because I didn't until I got there! This is what being an American is like. You're like, "Every place has these animals."” KnowsWorldLittlesDifferentBitsAnimalLike YouLittle BitSouthVegetarianSouth AfricaHungTraveledDid You KnowDifferent Animals Author:Cameron Esposito
“It's very rare to find a place where news itself has a political bent. Normally, let's say in the U.K. for instance, newspapers might explicitly support one party or the other, but television is just straight-up facts that are not influenced by any party from either side. In South Africa we try to maintain the same thing. Unfortunately, the government sometimes intervenes, but for the most part, the facts are the facts.” TryingSometimesFactsGovernmentMightPoliticalSidesPartySupportTelevisionNewsSouthNewspapersInstanceSouth AfricaBentStraight Up Author:Trevor Noah
“Even in South Africa, the Commonwealth were not doing anything, and their attitude was to tolerate apartheid in South Africa. There was a lot of lip service being paid to the need to stop this practice, but nothing was done.” NeedsDoneAttitudePracticePaidSouthLipsTolerateSouth AfricaApartheidCommonwealthLip Service Author:Mahathir Mohamad
“It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern European countries as well as in countries like South Korea, South Africa, Chile and Indonesia. However, if possible, the use of force is something to avoid except in cases where genocide is threatened, like Bosnia or Libya or with regimes that threaten our security, like the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.” IfsYearsWellsHas BeensCountryUseWould BePastPoliticalForceMistakeCasesDemocracySuccessfulSecurityHugeSouthPeacefulAbandonGenocideRegimesSouth AfricaThreatenedSaddamEasternHusseinPromotionKoreaIndonesiaTalibanLibyaChileEuropean CountriesBosniaUse Of ForceSouth KoreaPolitical Change Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“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.” AbleWatchesFieldsSouthShoesSouth AfricaReally CoolFootballer Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I was raised in a country [South Africa] with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a generation that suppressed people and lived under apartheid regimes. I don't know how you can come out of that and not have an awareness for the world. I think that if my life had turned out any other way and I was working in a bank, I would still feel this way about it, because there's a connection to humanity that to me is really important.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayFeelsStillsImportantCountryPoliticalHumanityCultureKnow HowGenerationsAwarenessConnectionsSouthRaisedRegimesSouth AfricaTurmoilApartheidPolitical Turmoil Author:Charlize Theron
“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.” PeopleStillsI CanSummerAskingSouthScaredShoppingSouth AfricaGroceriesAutographsGrocery Shopping Author:Evangeline Lilly
“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.” PeopleBlackWaterSouthWoodsBlack PeopleSouth AfricaCursedApartheidDrawers Author:Desmond Tutu
“The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.” CountryAbilityWonderfulExamplePaperLateSouthInjusticeContradictionSouth AfricaPlaywrightCountrymen Author:Adam Hochschild
“There is a section of our population in South Africa that you can't expect to get integrated in the economy of its own. These are people without skills and that will include young people who might very well have matric certificates, but don't have the skills to be absorbed in the economy. So we need to target people like those in a special way, in a focused way so that they have the skills and the capacity to participate in the economy. That requires special programmes.” PeopleWayNeedsWellsMightYoungEconomySpecialSkillsCapacitySouthPopulationFocusedTargetSouth AfricaSectionsIntegratedProgrammesCertificates Author:Thabo Mbeki
“The public service needs lots of people, South Africa generally, needs lots of people.” PeopleNeedsSouthSouth AfricaPublic Service Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsBigsCoursesGrowthEconomyDevelopmentSkillsCapacitySouthBoardsSouth AfricaConstraintsPrivate SectorShortage Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth rather than on these big deals that have been characteristic of this process in the past, of people going to banks, borrowing a lot of money, buying this and when the shares don't perform very well, the shares go back to the banks, because there's other people who own this anyway. I think we need to re-focus it so that it really does impact on growth, new investment, new employment and a general, better spread of wealth in South Africa.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsDoeHas BeensBigsPastProcessBlackGrowthWealthDealsFocusShareEconomicCreationEmpowermentImpactInvestmentSouthSpreadCriticalEmploymentCharacteristicsBuyingLots Of MoneySouth AfricaBig DealBorrowingEconomic Empowerment Author:Thabo Mbeki
“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.” PeopleWorldCountryMatterWholeProblemFacesViewsSouthPermanentSouth AfricaOther Countries Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going.” PeopleCountryTeacherPaidSouthNurseSouth AfricaDeveloped Country Author:Thabo Mbeki
“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.” RealCareersSouthLondonGood TimesMexicoSouth Africa Author:Robert Englund
“I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm awful at it), when I decided to play the 'put a pen somewhere on a map with your eyes closed' game with South Africa. About the 5th try was St. Lucia in South Africa, which coincidentally also happens to be an idyllic sub-tropical seaside resort town. The name seemed to fit with the mood of the music, and so after a while it just stuck.” GivingTryingPlayHappensEyeGamesNamesFitGiving UpProjectsDecidedTownsSouthStuckMoodAwfulMapsPensSouth AfricaFrustratedResortsTropicalIdyllic Author:St. Lucia
“My family still lives over there [ in South Africa] .I miss them terribly. I would say that most of my life over there was probably very similar to the sort of life someone would experience growing up somewhere like Australia or in the US.” StillsGrowing UpGrowingMissingMy FamilySouthAustraliaSouth AfricaStill Life Author:St. Lucia
“When I was 10 I went to the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, which is this idyllic Harry Potter-esque music boarding school in the mountains in South Africa, and that's when everything started to change for me and I realised that music is my thing.” SchoolBoysMountainMusic IsSouthSouth AfricaHarry PotterPottersRealisedChoirIdyllic Author:St. Lucia
“Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to do), there should be a mixed population with equal rights, the same rights for the Arab and the French populations, as well as all the other races living there.” ShouldTryingWellsTodayRaceRightsEqualSouthPopulationSouth AfricaFavourEqual RightsFederation Author:Catherine Camus
“Certainly we must combine forces . South African troops are within the country.We raised this matter with Mrs [Margaret] Thatcher and Lord [Peter] Carrington when we met them and we wanted to get from them a definite commitment that they were going to get the South African troops out.” CountryMatterWantedForceLordMetsCommitmentSouthRaisedPeterTroopsSouth AfricaDefinite Author:Robert Mugabe
“There is the possibility that these troops will be used against us if we are victorious. There is also the possibility that in fact the South Africans are there at the invitation of Britain, because Britain is hesitating to remove them. Hence there is a need for us to combine forces and demand through all political platforms, through all media, the withdrawal of South African troops and action, definite action, by Britain to get those South African troops out.” IfsNeedsFactsActionPoliticalUsedForceMediaPossibilityDemandSouthBritainRemovePlatformsTroopsSouth AfricaDefiniteInvitationsWithdrawal Author:Robert Mugabe
“This is the Immorality Act of 1927.To prohibit illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and natives and other acts in relation thereto. Be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa as follows.” HouseKingsRelationUnionsSouthExcellentSenateSouth AfricaMajestyIntercourseAssemblyImmorality Author:Trevor Noah
“I don't even remember hearing about [Immorality Act of 1927]. I just knew about it. I was born into it, so I don't remember my parents ever saying it to me. I don't remember a conversation ever being had around this. I just knew this to be the law because that's what I was growing up in during that time in South Africa.” RememberLawParentBornGrowing UpGrowingConversationSouthHearingSouth AfricaImmorality Author:Trevor Noah
“The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look through that registry and look at all the names of all the people who were registered to be living in the house. And they would, you know, cross-reference that with the actual inhabitants of the dwelling.I was never on that piece of paper. I was always hidden. My grandmother would hide me somewhere if the police did show up. And it was a constant game of hide and seek.” PeopleIfsKnowsLooksShowsGamesHouseNamesPiecesPaperCrossesPoliceConstantSouthChecksGrandmotherSouth AfricaMy GrandmotherDwellingHide And Seek Author:Trevor Noah
“People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were uniformed police. The state was being surveilled the entire time.” PeopleStatesPoliceSouthSouth AfricaPolice StateUndercoverSnitch Author:Trevor Noah
“I was lucky to come along for the ride. [My mother] really is an amazing woman. And the world we lived in in South Africa at the time was a very matriarchal society because so many black men had been removed from the home.” MenWorldHomeMotherBlackLuckySouthSouth AfricaAlong For The RideAmazing Woman Author:Trevor Noah
“I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African languages. So I speak Zulu. I speak Xhosa. I speak Tswana. And I speak Tsonga. And like - so those are my languages of the core. And then I don't claim German, but I can have a conversation in it. So I'm trying to make that officially my seventh language. And then, hopefully, I can learn Spanish.” TryingI CanSpeakLanguageConversationClaimsSouthCoreHopefullySouth AfricaDutchDerivativesSpeak English Author:Trevor Noah
“I know that in South Africa, we were in that space, and we're still suffering from that space. And that was where a government very successfully convinced the majority of a population that every single person there was blocking the other people from achieving greatness in the country, only to realize that we were all being oppressed at the same time. That's one of the biggest things. And I'm proud to say that.” PeopleKnowsPersonsStillsCountryGovernmentSufferingRealizingSpaceAchieveGreatnessProudMajoritySouthPopulationConvincedBlockSouth AfricaOppressedSingle PersonAchieve Greatness Author:Trevor Noah
“I led the fight here against apartheid as President of the ACTU, including particularly the Springbok tour in 1971. And that led to the banning of the South African cricket tour which had been scheduled - that was something that I sorted out with Sir Donald Bradman. That was interesting.” FightingPresidentInterestingSouthIncludingSouth AfricaCricketApartheidBradman Author:Bob Hawke
“It was the South African Government that has introduced politics into sport by decreeing politically that no non-white person will represent their country. They introduced politics into sport." And Don [Bradman] was a very shrewd old bloke, and he looked at me for about thirty seconds and then he said, "Bob, I've got no answer to that." And that was it.” PersonsSaidCountryGovernmentSportsWhiteAnswersSouthThirtySecondsBobSouth AfricaBlokesBradman Author:Bob Hawke
“As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.” ShouldSportsConcernedShould HaveSouthSouth AfricaOrganisation Author:Bob Hawke
“I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, "I think it could work." I said, "Will you help us?" He said, "Yes." So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.” PeopleThinkingSaidHelpingRunningLastsRecordsNew YorkMy FriendsInvestmentSouthFinalsCome UpFinanceMinistersRegimesSouth AfricaNailsSeniorPropositionsSanctionsApartheidCoffinsTreasuryVancouverCommercial Banks Author:Bob Hawke
“It was a remarkable relationship. Margaret [Thatcher] and I had a love/hate relationship. She was always defending the South African regime and we had some terrible fights, including an enormous one in Canada.” HateFightingTerribleSouthIncludingEnormousCanadaRemarkableRegimesSouth AfricaLove HateLove Hate Relationship Author:Bob Hawke
“In fact, soon after that [South African sanctions], I was going on an official visit to the UK and Margaret Thatcher instructed every minister to clear the decks of any outstanding matters between us - Australia and the Brits. And she went out of her way to make sure that that was as successful a visit as it possibly could be.” WayMatterFactsSuccessfulClearSouthMinistersOfficialsAustraliaSouth AfricaOutstandingSanctionsDeckBrits Author:Bob Hawke
“The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial but personal, providing experts and so on, to assist less developed members of the Commonwealth to get on the growing path. And that was part of what we did with South Africa.” ShouldCountryNumbersPathGrowingMembersConceptsSouthFinancialExpertsProvidingSouth AfricaAssistanceCommonwealthSmall NumbersDeveloped Country Author:Bob Hawke