South Africa Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Struggle, Past, Democracy

  "Tregernomics Interview with President Thabo Mbeki". Interview with Adam Treger, www.mbeki.org. October 31, 2016.

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

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, People, Needs

  "Tregernomics Interview with President Thabo Mbeki". Interview with Adam Treger, www.mbeki.org. October 31, 2016.

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• 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.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Regret, School, Levels

  Interview with Adam Treger, www.tregernomics.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I don't know why you should isolate women in this regard. If you have a traditional leader who says 'I am the sole exclusive ruler, I am the autocrat', it will affect everybody in the area, whether they are men or women. The challenge that South Africa faces, and it is not a new challenge, a whole range of African countries have faced this challenge, is that where you have institutional traditional leadership, which in our country is protected by the Constitution, how does that institution function side by side with a democratic system?

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Men, Leader

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior people over there to assist the incoming South African regime to go about the economic plan.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, People, Economic

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• 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.

  Bob Hawke

  Country, Numbers, Growing

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• 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.

  St. Lucia

  Growing Up, Australia, Missing

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super well in South Africa still struggling to survive, or even people on the international level who are doing well but financially can't really support themselves.

  St. Lucia

  Dream, Crazy, Struggle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything that was too subversive was basically banned. All the music that we got from outside of South Africa was the poppiest, least subversive music that you could get.

  St. Lucia

  Country, Growing Up, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  St. Lucia

  Giving Up, Eye, Games

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• 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.

  Robert Englund

  Real, Careers, Mexico

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Views, People

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my house; a woman made my food. A woman beat my ass when I wasn't a good kid. Women were behind a lot of what spurred South Africa toward democracy.

  Trevor Noah

  Powerful, Kids, House

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Past, Thinking, Impact

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• 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.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Skills, Growth

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Needs, Public Service

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• 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.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Skills, People, Special

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• 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.

  Adam Hochschild

  Country, Example, Paper

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Water, Black

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• 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.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Summer, Shopping, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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.

  Lewis Pugh

  Country, Children, Thinking

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know:
  That South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Black And White, Government

  Nelson Mandela (1978). “The struggle is my life”

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• 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.

  Catherine Camus

  Rights, Race, Trying

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity — a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Heart, Black And White, People

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• 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.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Commitment, Troops

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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