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None of us, acting alone, can achieve the success. — Nelson Mandela

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination. — Thabo Mbeki

When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I've always had fun in South Africa. — Joel Parkinson

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. — Rose Bird

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. — Nadine Gordimer

Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane. — Binyavanga Wainaina

South Africa's subprime crisis OP-ED — Anonymous

S'tjwetla is a black man's striptease. — Toba Beta

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans. — Zakes Mda

I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot. — Louis Oosthuizen

Though I drive in the valley of the shadow of death I fear no hijackers, but another fuel increase. — Niq Mhlongo

Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon. — James Vanderbilt

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places. — J. Philippe Rushton

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel. — David Ben-Gurion

I'm happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC. — Nadine Gordimer

Live your dreams, not your fears! A.Hume — Albina Hume

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan. — Pope Francis

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa. — Trevor Noah

When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today. — Ferial Haffajee

There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults! — Jeremy Clarkson

In 2002, the 2000 Engelbrecht Els wine was released in South Africa and received high ratings. — Ernie Els

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

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible. — Henry Rollins

Meerlust Rubicon from South Africa, a suitably wintry red. — John Connolly

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger. — P. W. Botha

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. — River Phoenix

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this. — Mary Steenburgen

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. — Kitty Kelley

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam. — Lauren Beukes

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. — Desmond Tutu

Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia. — Sourav Ganguly

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

Leaving South Africa was very difficult. — Kevin Pietersen

South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone. — Rudolph Straeuli

The next day the government of South Africa announced that full civil rights would be restored to the white minority. — Arthur C. Clarke

South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here. — Ernie Els

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter. — Damon Galgut

When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa. — Ban Ki-moon

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white. — Thabo Mbeki

What is South Africa's sound? What are they supposed to bring that ignites the rest of the body of Christ around the globe? — Jeremy Riddle

In democratic South Africa, dispossession is nine-tenths of the law. — Ilana Mercer

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters. — Desmond Tutu

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career. — Gail Kelly

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno

Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well. — Nicholas Kristof

We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students. — Shakira

I went cage diving in South Africa with Great Whites, and that was fun. Sweden was cool. — Peter Uihlein

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence. — Richard Grant

I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did. — Letta Mbulu

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

I don't think we choked this time. We never played well enough to choke. — Craig Matthews

In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long. — Peter Abrahams

Even taxpayers have rights! — Beric J. Croome

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. — Louis Leakey

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do ... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state. — Hendrik Verwoerd

I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born. — Daniel Hope

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. — Watkin Tudor Jones

As Alan Paton said, 'Ah but your fucking land is beautiful'. — Andre Brink

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

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. — Robert Pattinson

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela. — Desmond Tutu

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. — Steven Biko

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity. — Oliver Tambo

it was the largest such action to ever take place in South Africa; over 1,500,000 million workers took part — Anonymous

South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K. — Richard Stanley

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. — Henry Rollins

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

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid. — Desmond Tutu

I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time. — Lauren Beukes

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa. — Dianna Agron

I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story. — Euzhan Palcy

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. — Alan Paton

Never argue with a fool, people might not notice the difference — Niq Mhlongo

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate. — Kenny Baker

I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast. — Candice Swanepoel

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa. — Benito Mussolini

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems. — Jacob Zuma

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

We can change South Africa on the rugby field — Danie Craven

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

Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west. — Angelique Kidjo

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind. — Kevin Pietersen

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. — St. Lucia

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity. — Nelson Mandela

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent. — Pratibha Patil

Moral writing is boring. — Johan Van Wyk

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa. — Gerry Adams

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa. — Susan Rice

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. — Oliver Tambo

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States. — Malcolm X

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa. — Oliver Tambo

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Unless South Africa is — Ha-Joon Chang

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. — Nadine Gordimer

I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries. — Paris Hilton

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual
masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe. — Christina Stead

We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them. — Julius Malema