Top 1200 South Africa Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

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

I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.

For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

The ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

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

We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.

I don't really understand Darren Lehmann coming out and saying the South African crowd has been out of order. Any England player, even media, who have toured Australia can laugh at those comments because some of the things we hear on the pitch from Australian supporters, known as 'banter,' I know is worse than in South Africa.

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

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

Podor is a nice town. It's at the north of Senegal near the river. The town faces the other country that is Mauritania. It is a very cultural town, because at the beginning it was closest stop when you come from the Sahara and also when you come from the south to go to the north part of Africa. It was just at the middle, and so it's where a lot of cultures of West Africa come together.

The trails in South Africa are completely different to Europe: dusty and loose surface.

I've never been to anywhere in Africa except Egypt. We've never performed there, so I would definitely like to make that trip, probably to South Africa. I'd also like to score a movie from top to bottom. I've had songs in a bunch of films but never done an entire movie. I'd like to do that and have it to be a hit, too!

I would love to win a trophy for South Africa in white ball cricket.

I fancy a safari in South Africa. Watching animals in the wild must be amazing.

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

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

When I get a chance to play in South Africa, I will try to do well.

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

One minute I was a PR intern, the next I was Miss South Africa.

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

Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

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

My parents both played tennis in South Africa. I learned from them.

I went to South Africa - Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg - and those were definitely the "I've arrived" shows. Outside of the money, the success, the accolades ... This is a place that we, in urban communities, never dream of. We never dream of Africa. Like, "Damn, this is the motherland." You feel it as soon as you touch down. That moment changed my whole perspective on how to convey my art.

South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.

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

I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.

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

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

I think I have the ability and can play a role in T20 cricket for South Africa.

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

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

When I'm in South Africa, I make it a point to take my dogs out to the beach.

After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent states in West Africa, and subsequently set Africa up for the Western slave trade and the Arabs were in the slave trade before Islam and they are still in the slave trade.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?

I have found that the people in South Africa are fabulous. Thy are receptive and value fulfilling their lives. They are highly spirited and have dreams and desires to serve. I have learned how resourceful and efficient many people are able to live and how creative they can be and how much love they have for the families and extended loved ones. I love the spirit of South Africans.

The 'Love Island' villa in South Africa is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.

'Sizwe' is the beginning of protest theatre; 'Nothing But The Truth' is post-apartheid South Africa.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.

South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.

The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.

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

The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! [...] The South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people than the United States government!

I've travelled a lot so I've been to South Africa before and it's beautiful.

If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.

I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.

I got recognized on the subway in South Africa because of 'Big Bang.'

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

One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.

A safari is just a magical thing, the winelands in South Africa are beautiful.

I was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, but I live in New York City.