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Mandla Langa Quotes

born 1950 South Africa

Mandla Langa (born 1950 in KwaMashu, Durban) is a South African journalist and writer known for his novel The Lost Colours of The Chameleon. He went into exile in 1976 and has thus lived in several countries including Botswana, United Kingdom, Angola, Hungary, Mozambique and Zambia.

South Africa
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Post-apartheid South Africa has failed to take advantage of the goodwill of the world and harness African solidarity

Storytellers will never go out of business. It’s all a work in progress. An egg waiting to be hatched.

If you are a human being the huge ethical debates will rest with you in the snarling loneliness of midnight

Every writer enjoys a challenge that plunges him or her into uncharted waters

There are not enough hours in the day to explore the lives of men and women in their daily struggles with poverty, hunger and disease

In our haste to promote an unproblematic and amnesiac Rainbow Nation, we have rewarded murderers with medals and even loosed some of them to speak for us in exalted councils

It is enough to have imagined, but it helps to have lived through the circumstances

Home and exile are not geographic places

It is my belief that in accepting Mandela in all his complex configurations, we can start coming to terms with the kind of greatness we are collectively capable of reaching

The new buzzword is ‘erasure’ and it is my belief that great people, especially if they stand for ideals that are inimical to the interests of the powerful, are erased via misinterpretation

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mandla Langa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.