#south africa

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are. ↗

— Antony Sher

#belong #constantly #courage #gay #groups

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

— Desmond Tutu

#blessing #like #man #mandela #nelson

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#blamed #crash #cups #edge #ground

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#always #confirm #development #economic #economic development

Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick. ↗

— Bob Pettit

#bush #extracts #heal #many #sick

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#am #been #come #determination #games

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that. ↗

— Bruce Davison

#filming #five #i #know #many

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#am #australian #dialects #good #i

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

#apartheid #belong #berlin #between #blacks

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#any #cease #china #corner #democracy