Africa Quotes

Africa Quote of the day

What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.

Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

South Africa needs a second liberation.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

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

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.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

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

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

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.

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

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

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

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

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

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

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.

God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.

They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.

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.

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation - without denying that certain issues exist.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

We do not want chaos in South Africa.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

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

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.

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

The ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back.

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

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

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

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.

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

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.

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

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if South Africa was xenophobic.

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.

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