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Njabulo Ndebele Quotes

born 1948 South Africa

Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele (born 4 July 1948) is a South African academic and writer of fiction who is the former vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Cape Town (UCT). On 16 November 2012, he was inaugurated as the chancellor of the University of Johannesburg.

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Random Njabulo Ndebele quote

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War and conquests in the twenty-first century suddenly look distressingly primitive… We need a new value system for resolving world conflicts.

And that’s our problem. We laugh at everything, just stopping short of seriousness.

My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would be the first silence that would carry meaning.

You see, you should learn to say what you mean. Words, little man, are a gift from the Almighty, the Eternal Wisdom. He gave us all a little pinch of his mind and called on us to think. That is why it is folly to misuse words or not to know how to use them well.”

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