In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.

Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)