Quotes of the week

“It pains us to even think that he would be alive if he did not come home last weekend. We are hoping to meet in one of the homesteads for the whole week and hold a mass funeral,” said a family member of the 10 people who died in an accident.

“Some of us thought he was a member of the solidarity forces, while others supposed he wanted to stage a robbery since the bar is situated in the same building that houses Smiles Supermarket. We thought he was en route to an operation or he was from killing someone. The mood in the bar changed. We feared for our safety. He was drinking alone and kept to himself. Some of us walked out,” said a source on the warder who was carrying a rifle in a bar.

“There are many people who claim to be Christians yet they are on the other side, despite that they have to pray for peace. This is despite that like me, they are pastors. These pastors, on one side, pray for peace while on the other side want to overthrow government. If they want to leave, let them do so and not be on both sides. Your Majesty, it is true that you can also find me in a meeting plotting against the authorities. These meetings are held at night and not during the day because they are evil,” said Bishop Samson Hlatjwako.

“At first we were furnished with a communiqué, in 2021, informing us that we should stop admitting Grade 10 pupils as they would be stopping us from writing the exams the following year. I communicated that correspondence to the head teachers. In 2022, I told them that they had since informed us that our pupils would be writing the Matric exams for the last time,” said Minister of Education and Training Lady Mabuza.