Quotes by South African authors
South Africa is a very pro-sporting country.
Kevin Anderson
South African tennis player
The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.
Joe Slovo
Former Minister of Human Settlements of South Africa
One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.
Joe Slovo
Former Minister of Human Settlements of South Africa
Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
Miriam Makeba
South African singer-songwriter
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
Oliver Tambo
South African Politician
These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.
Oscar Pistorius
South African former professional sprinter
I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
Charlize Theron
South African-American actress
I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
Watching a Kirk Douglas movie, 'Young Man With A Horn,' made me want to be a trumpet player.
Hugh Masekela
South African trumpeter
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
I'm supposed to be famous, but I don't think I like it so much.
Caster Semenya
South African middle-
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.
Neill Blomkamp
South African-Canadian filmmaker
Any match you face, you know, you can be nervous.
Kevin Anderson
South African tennis player
The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
Oliver Tambo
South African Politician
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.
Neil Turok
Physicist
If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Nelson Mandela
Former President of South Africa
When I am on the blocks, I don't care who you are - I will always try and beat you.
Chad Le Clos
South African swimmer
I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.
Athol Fugard
South African playwright
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