THE WEEK IN WORDS
COMPILED BY TREVOR BRUCE
We will rise to the challenge. As we leave the European Union, we will forge a bold new positive role for ourselves in the world, and we will make Britian a country that works not for a privileged few, but for every one of us.
– New British Prime Minister Theresa May talks to the press outside No 10 Downing Street, vacated a few hours before by David Cameron.
The shop assistant was on the floor behind the counter, busy on her cellphone. Apart from us, there was nobody in the store. I was tempted and I stole the bird.
– Prakash Debichand pleads guilty in the Verulam Magistrate’s Court to stealing a parrot from a pet shop in Gateway.The episode was captured on CCTV.
We’ve given the Beast a rest. He played in every Test match, and we have every confidence in guys like Thomas du Toit and Dale Chadwick.
– Sharks coach Gary Gold explains why veteran prop Beast Mtawarira was given a rest for last night’s clash against the Sunwolves.
Any man who wants to vandalise it, I’ll moer him right here. If anyone thinks he can do that, come now. Not in my work – that’s my time, my everything. You ANC loyalist, whoever, come now – I’m here. I’m not Brett Murray.
– Artist Ayanda Mabulu on threats to his painting Prostitute, which shows President Jacob Zuma in a sexual act with Atul Gupta.
All self-respecting South Africans, including the media, should condemn this.You can’t find a way of exercising your freedom of expression by undermining the dignity of another person.
– ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa.
ANC Women’s League is silent when hundreds of young boys die in initiation schools and when Thuli Madonsela was abused by senior ANC men who were trying to protect the president for the Nkandla corruption. She is getting death threats, but they are still silent. But they pop up at Oscar Pistorius’s trial to defend the rights of women.
– An SMS sent by“Lulu”to sister paper the Daily News’s BackChat column. I was asked at a shopping centre for a donation to help President Zuma pay for Nkandla. Is this legal?
– Another SMS sent in to BackChat by“Granny Mavis”. Last week two significant things happened in the world of fastmoving objects: the Juno space probe reached Jupiter and the new secondgeneration Audi R8 was launched in South Africa.
– The first sentence of a road test of the new Audi R8.