South Africa Quotes - Page 8

• It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS the transition from village life to city life.

  Laura Thielen

  Children, Reality, Cities

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• My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

  Nina Simone

  Song, Jobs, Singing

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• As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Jobs, Children, Long

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

  Retief Goosen

  School, Years, Two

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• In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In this, the richest, 'booming' state, the prisons bulge with stricken Aboriginal people, including juveniles whose mothers stand at the prison gates, pleading for their release. The incarceration of black Australians here is eight times that of black South Africans during the last decade of apartheid.

  John Pilger

  Mother, Eight, Land

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• But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use

  Emma Thompson

  Religious, Sex, Uganda

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• In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land.

  Miriam Makeba

  Song, New York, Land

  "Mama Africa" by Gamal Nkrumah. Profile. Al-Ahram Weekly, November, 2001.

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• New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.

  Helen Clark

  Skills, Dimensions, Should

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• My mind immediately shot to South Africa the moment I sat down to think what I was going to write, what I was going to say. There was no other choice.

  Wole Soyinka

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.mott.org

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Share, Resources

  Source: www.mott.org

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• The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mean, Black And White, Long

  Source: www.mott.org

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• From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Feminism, Mozambique, Sierra Leone

  "Feminism's global challenge: With one voice" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2011.

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• I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

  Zola Budd

  Strong, Views, Needs

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• I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

  Athol Fugard

  Writing, Thinking, White

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• I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have lived through one World War, I have lived through the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the pulling down of the Berlin Wall. I have experienced what I never thought I would have experienced, which is a pretty workable peace in Northern Ireland, and I experienced a unified Europe - until the Conservative government got its hands on the idea that in order to appease a few back-benchers they would hold a referendum, what a disastrous idea.

  Patrick Stewart

  Wall, War, Government

  Source: time.com

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• How different South Africa’s cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord’s sunshine.

  Richard Lloyd

  Country, Sunshine, Opportunity

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

  Antony Sher

  Grandparent, Lithuania, South

  "Antony Sher: 'Painting and writing stop me going crazy'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2012.

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• Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.

  Simon Hoggart

  Optimistic, Mean, White

  "Ironing the Lawn in Salisbury, Rhodesia". www.theguardian.com. February 09, 1980.

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• For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd.

  Paul Keating

  Kevin, Lasts, Firsts

  "Keating Criticises Alp Over Compulsory Super Plan". Interview with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. March 05, 2007.

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• When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Land, Practice

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• 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.'

  Joan Ganz Cooney

  Children, Tree, Friendly

  "Q&A with Sesame Workshop Founder Joan Ganz Cooney". Interview with Amy S. Choi, www.bloomberg.com. February 3, 2009.

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• For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

  Athol Fugard

  Men, Rocks, Miracle

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• 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.

  Athol Fugard

  New York, Flavor Of The Month, Months

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• Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

  Athol Fugard

  White, Done, Realization

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