South African Racism - Quotes
Peter Godwin |
"A white in Africa is like a Jew everywhere, on sufferance, watching warily, waiting for the next great tidal swell of hostility". Peter Godwin, from his book When a Crocodile Eats the Sun |
Fred Bridgeland |
"A country (South Africa) once proclaimed as “non-racist” but which has implemented a damaging raft of reverse-racist policies with similarities to those adopted by past white governments." |
Rhoda Kadalie |
"It is commonly assumed that the oppressed cannot be racist and discrimination is the preserve of white people and the powerful. But genocide and ethnic cleansing in Africa have put the lie to these assumptions. Virulent attacks on immigrants and refugees testify to the fact that those of us who have been discriminated against know how to give those whom we consider the “other” — and an economic threat — the same if not worse treatment." Rhoda Kadalie writing in Business Day |
Adam Alexander |
"Thanks to South Africa’s uniquely chequered past, seriously-deranged people come in all colours – but how do you stop being wary of people who are statistically the ones most likely at any moment to drop a boulder onto your lap or put a bullet in the back of your head? In that way, violent crime is continuing to poison people's minds." |
Zamile Mbanjwa |
"I wasn't served because the waiter made it his policy not to serve black people because they don't tip", Zamile Mbanjwa of the University of Kwazulu Natal commenting on her recent experience at a Ladysmith restaurant. |
Tinyiko Maluleke |
"It's what apartheid did to people. One of the things that racism has done to black people is make them devalue themselves and often this is shown in the way they relate to other black people", Professor Tinyiko Maluleke, Unisa's executive director of research. |
Sifiso Falala |
"Blacks are more likely to be ill-treated on race grounds, but blacks are also more likely to treat other blacks worse than they treat people of other races", Sifiso Falala, chief executive of Plus 94. |
Rory Carroll |
"South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor." |
Yolishwa Mathe |
"If I had a way of changing the colour of my skin to white I would do it." Yolishwa Mathe (from Port Nolloth) speaking to President Thabo Mbeki. |
Anonymous corporal |
"The aims of the ANC are the 3 S's and a T - Sedition, Sabotage, Subversion and Terrorism." Anonymous corporal in the South African Defence Force during a lecture during the 12-week basic military training. |
Charles Darwin |
“…At some future period, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.” Charles Darwin, Descent of Man |
Immanual Kant |
"Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites." |
Immanual Kant |
"The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people." |
Georg Hagel |
"Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that makind enjoyed..." |
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22 August 2006 |
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