As quoted in "Truth and reconciliation" at BBC Focus on Africa (January-March 2000)
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Suzanne Belling, "Mandela bears message of peace in first visit to Israel", http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/12309/edition_id/237/format/html/displaystory.html jweekly.com, 22 October 1999 <br class="br">Attributed
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901–1966) Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966
On 26 May 1960 at a large political rally at Meyerton, Transvaal, as quoted by David Harrison in The White Tribe of Africa https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LgwWMUbyNVUC, University of California Press, 1983, p. 165.
“The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.”
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
As cited in Dictionary of South African Quotations, Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 90
Jeremy Clarkson (1960) English broadcaster, journalist and writer
"Flood that released America's demons", The Sun, September 10, 2005
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Speech in Boston (2002)
“My fellow South Africans — the people of South Africa:
This is indeed a joyous night.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Victory speech (1994)
Context: My fellow South Africans — the people of South Africa:
This is indeed a joyous night. Although not yet final, we have received the provisional results of the election, and are delighted by the overwhelming support for the African National Congress.
To all those in the African National Congress and the democratic movement who worked so hard these last few days and through these many decades, I thank you and honour you. To the people of South Africa and the world who are watching: this a joyous night for the human spirit. This is your victory too. You helped end apartheid, you stood with us through the transition.
“Where in the whole wide world today can you find a more just society than South Africa has?”
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
As Minister of Defence, East London NP Congress, 6 May 1976, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 16
“South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.”
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
Speaking to the House of Assembly on 28 April 1986, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, Sunday Times, 5 November 2006
“I think South Africa is a great country.”
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Source: Conversation: Elon Musk on Wired Science (2007)
“We do not want chaos in South Africa.”
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
Explaining why cinemas were not open to all races, House of Assembly, April 21, 1983, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, Sunday Times, 5 November 2006
