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South African cricket, we're pretty resilient.
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
I just always play in a South African speedo when I play for the Springboks.
The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.
There's never been a weak South African or Australian team. They are fighters.
My father is a South African actor who danced in broadway musicals for 'Lion King.'
I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
Winning an official World Cup with the South African team had become my burning ambition.
I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.
I am more South African than Pakistani now. It's a great country, and I have met so many nice people.
There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.
I use a 1994 South African 5 rand coin to mark my ball. It reminds me of my '94 U.S. Open win at Oakmont.
I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
I do bring an intimate knowledge of the South African team. I know the little idiosyncrasies of each of them.
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out that the South African bowling attack is exceptionally good.
Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
I just want my daughter to grow up in a society where she feels accepted being South African, German and Ukrainian.
As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
I've never been bothered about being the highest wicket-taker in the world or the best South African bowler in the world.
In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end.
I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.
Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.
Our nation is comprised of many different backgrounds and cultures, one of the many things that makes me immensely proud to be a South African.
I like to make bombueti, which is basically the South African national dish. It's basically a South African curry shepherd's pie kind of thing.
Mandela was chosen as a symbol of the South African struggle, and he did that great. But I wasn't just happy for him. I was happy for the people.
This is quite public knowledge. The South African government has said they're doing it. They've started seizing their first couple hundred farms.
In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.
We had South African accents. I was a vegan. I was raised without religion. I was just the weirdest kid in this small town, so I got made fun of a lot for it.
Every time there is a movie that tells a South African story, it is done by someone who must be taught the right way of pronouncing 'Sawubona.' Enough is enough.
I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.
It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.
I write about the human condition, as a South African. I sometimes see South Africa with the spectacles of the past and there will then be a political content in my writing.
Growing up South African, I was comparatively in a world of privilege, especially being the youngest and being figuratively wrapped up in cotton wool by the rest of the family.
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
I stand for the education of the South African youth, for equality and representation, as Miss South Africa, I cannot wait to make a contribution to these important social causes.
We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.
I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.
I connect so much with Peter Gabriel's sound because, to me, he always had that South African vibe. His drums were always something to move to: it was almost like Calypso. I'm a big fan.
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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.
Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.
I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years of my life there. Being a kid, my early musical experiences were there.
I've always been attracted to something that's a little bit left - Korean R&B, South African hip-hop. I'm really curious about my homies back in Jamaica, what are they listening to? I'm always searching.