Quotes by South African/South Africa authors (page 7)

"I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one"

"Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness"

Breyten Breytenbach, Writer

"So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior"

Steven Biko, Activist

"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being"

Steven Biko, Activist

"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude"

Steven Biko, Activist

"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed"

Steven Biko, Activist

"I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality"

Theo de Raadt, Scientist

"We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer"

Tony Greig, Athlete

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

Steven Biko, Activist

"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time"

Steven Biko, Activist

"It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected"

William Plomer, Writer

"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality"

Steven Biko, Activist

"In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that"

Theo de Raadt, Scientist

"I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system"

Theo de Raadt, Scientist

"The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity"

Steven Biko, Activist

"Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

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