Top 1200 South Africa Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I will always be grateful to the coaches and staff of Cricket South Africa for their support through all these years.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

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

The tour of South Africa is a tough one and if you start thinking like this before it then it is not helpful for anyone.

If I win gold, I will dedicate it to Nelson Mandela. He is a hero in South Africa, and everything I do, I do for him.

As Miss South Africa, I cannot wait to make a contribution to important social causes.

HIV/AIDS is a very big problem in my country South Africa, so I hope to stand as an advocate for that.

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.

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.

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

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

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

But I love bowling in India, the grounds are quite flat whereas in South Africa you feel you are running uphill.

I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.

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.

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

Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.

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

South Africa is really diverse, with many cultures and 11 official languages, so there are lots of different Christmas traditions.

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history.

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

Free education for all - whilst it is a desirable notion, in South Africa it will simply not be affordable.

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

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

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

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

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

In South Africa there are many women with a large chest. There you are not embarrassed when you visit a lingerie store to get a bra fitted.

When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change.

After World Cup 2010 in South Africa I will no longer play for la Nazionale.

My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'

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

I was 51 when I voted for the first time in 1994, and I look at South Africa through those spectacles.

I had been dancing in competitions in South Africa since the age of four, before going on to compete internationally.

For me, ever since the South Africa World Cup, the French team is part of the past.

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.

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

The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.

I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.

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

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

A 'township' in the U.S. is a small area. In South Africa it's a place designated for non-white people during the apartheid.

We have to be mentally strong to prepare to face a team like South Africa in their own backyard.

Tolkien was influenced by South Africa when he was writing 'Lord of the Rings.' It's really epic scenery.

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

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

Punk, and rock in general, is often very myopic. When people sing about "the world," they're generally focused almost entirely on the west and Europe. Sometimes South America. Sometimes Asia. But rarely Africa. The Ex, famously, is one of the few rock acts to travel and perform in Africa which, may be home to more musicians than just about anywhere else in the world.

I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Accelo(ph) coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of Africa by a German submarine. And I was in a lifeboat for 14 days and landed and lived with the Pondos in South Africa while - who took care of us and took care of me. I had some wound in my left leg.

The role that Cuba played and the lives of those 2,077 Cubans, whose mothers and families mourn for having lost their children in Africa, helped achieve the true security and independence of Angola. It was a contribution because in the end the Angolan people were the ones who decided that. We also contributed in a definitive way securing the independence of Namibia after years that a United Nations resolution was being ignored by South Africa and the western powers.

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

Namibia took my breath away - we were at the border with South Africa, and it was where they filmed 'Mad Max.'

In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.

I find it terribly distracting in movies when people do accents, I must say, unless it's terribly serious and the story is rooted in South Africa and you're doing a South African accent. But in period movies I think nothing can be more distracting than people doing accents.

I'm not a huge fan of South Africa. I always feel a bit worried security-wise.

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

St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this nostalgic, hazy vibe.

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

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