THE WEEK IN WORDS
COMPILED BY LINDSAY SLOGROVE
You can’t confine yourself in your backyard if you want to progress.You need to go out there, meet and invite people to your yard and that’s where ideas are born. eThekwini citizens will benefit immensely from this project. – Durban Mayor Zandile Gumede on the planned WasteTo-Energy feasibility study on solid waste management to produce alternative energy. It is time that with public entities, either Parliament takes a decision or we enact law… (that) when people take reckless decisions… those people should actually pay out of their own pockets. – ANC MP Jabu Mahlangu, on the affairs of the SABC. There must be no parole ever granted to him. By law, he can apply for parole after 25 years, but he will need approval from the victims and their families, and that will never happen. – Women and Men Against Child Abuse spokesperson Miranda Friedmann after an Ekurhuleni car salesman,Warren Knoop, was sentenced by Judge Cassim Moosa in the Johannesburg High Court to 32 life sentences and 170 years for 870 charges related to rape and child pornography,
Where are these guns coming from? We can’t keep treating the symptom and ignoring the
cause. – KZN violence monitor Mary de Haas commenting as at least 139 unlicensed firearms were recovered in KwaZulu-Natal in the first month of the year. Initially my bill would come to R11000. I never questioned it. I just paid it out of fear that my electricity and water would be disconnected... A month later, the account rose to R18000 and to pay it, I sold my car. – Brookdale resident Glen Naicker at a public meeting held in Phoenix about the city’s R700 million billing system. In December, his bill was R80000, last month it was R136000 and in February R157000 this month. Why do we need it (the proposed Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill)? We have the Equality Act, crimen injuria (charges), we have laws in place. – Freedom of Religion South Africa (For SA) executive director Michael Swain. If a person in leadership condemns a certain group and uses scriptures, it is influential. – Nonhlanhla Mkhize, director of Durban Lesbian and Gay Community and Health Care, on the proposed Bill.