187 Quotes About South-africa

My father once told me that the dynamics of the Agulhas current was called Retroflection; the movement of an ocean current that doubles back on itself.

Most of the men thrown into the back of the van that night were drunk, but none was in public: each was in his own home. And yet not one of them questioned the legality of his arrest. After nearly a dace of democracy, each assumed that the cops had every right to drag him out of his home and throw him in prison.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

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

They talked at full volume. As if life was a vinyl that could only be truly appreciated when plugged into an amplifier and turned way up.

The dorp felt like another planet; an accidental seed that never received enough water or sunlight to reach its full potential.

Kom ons reël 'n braai en dan moan ons oor hoe swaar ons kry in die nuwe Suid-Afrika

Productivity is about turning valuable inputs into valuable outputs. Individual people are more productive when all the elements of the permaculture economy are at work in their lives. When individuals are productive, then businesses become productive. When businesses become productive, the nation becomes productive.

Ancient Ninevah and Babylon have been revived. Johannesburg is their twentieth century prototype. It is a city of unbridled squander and unfathomable squalor. Living is more costly than one's wildest dreams. All the necessities of life are impudently dear.