A Short History of South Africa Quotes

“During the apartheid era, South Africa did not honour the Rule”
― Gail Nattrass, A Short History of South Africa

“of Law. Section Six of the Terrorism Act, for example, enabled men to be detained without trial. A considerable body of arbitrary (unrestrained) power was exercised by government agents who were responsible to no one.”
― Gail Nattrass, A Short History of South Africa

“government was the English government’.33”
― Gail Nattrass, A Short History of South Africa

“Former president Nelson Mandela has said of Healdtown a generation later: ‘The English gentleman was what we aspired to be. We were taught and we believed the best ideas were English ideas and the best”
― Gail Nattrass, A Short History of South Africa

“to stand by things decided’).”
― Gail Nattrass, A Short History of South Africa

“Although South Africa has been a democracy under a single government since 1994, tax payers’ money is still used to pay ten African kings, a ‘Rain Queen’,13 hundreds of chiefs and thousands of headmen who enact laws that run parallel to the official laws of the land.14 South Africa is also one of the most unequal societies in the world. There is an enormous gap between the haves and the have-nots, the legacy of a succession of white-minority governments whose policies of segregation and apartheid15 left the majority of people disadvantaged. Regrettably, even since the fall of the old systems, there has not been much narrowing of the gap between the rich and the poor, and corruption abounds.”
― Gail Nattrass, A Short History of South Africa