Quotes of the Day

People walk over a bridge to Nonqubela train station early in the morning August 8, 2001 in the Site C section in Khayelitsha, a township about 35 kilometers outside Cape Town, South Africa.
Monday, Oct. 06, 2008

Open quoteIf only I could make Nelson Mandela come back. If only I could feed him a potion and make him young again.Close quote

  • MONICA XANGATHI,
  • a shanty dweller near Johannesburg, on the rampant poverty in South Africa 14 years after the end of apartheid
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