187 Quotes About South-africa

We need a change of attitude, because let's face it, no one’s going to change color

There is a duality to South Africa, as in all of life itself, that is evident, and as stark as the inequality among its citizens

MOUNT PLAASMOORDEIf ever you visit South AfricaAnd doLeave the brilliant beaches of Cape Town for a momentClimb Mount Plaasmoorde Witkruis monumentAnd you’ll see the victims of apartheidWhite crosses marking a thousand white victimsPlanted in the earth of a million black victimsThey lie dissolved in the humus of the soilsThey were too many to have their own marked gravesToo many to build black crosses forAnd just too hard to forget aboutBecause they make the soil under your feet black

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

Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.

About a year ago, an entire suburb in this man’s jurisdiction turned from the police and erected a substitute agency. To all intents and purposes, several thousand people here have severed their relationship with the South African Police Service. He appears not to have noticed.

Like ladies attending a Japanese tea ceremony, Ouma and I shared secrets between sips of steaming Rooibos.

You are harsh on others and yourself to the degree that you don’t know how important you are.

Your inner voice is the voice of your past.