THE WEEK IN WORDS
If someone has been called a monkey that should shock the whole nation, not just black people, because such statements take us back as a nation. If a farmer is killed there should be widespread condemnation of such acts, not only from white farmers, but from all of us because the victim is a South African, irrespective of where he comes from.
– King Goodwill Zwelithini in his speech at the official opening of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature in Pietermaritzburg
This is a flagrant abuse of public funds. The MEC must be grilled for her actions in dishing out finger-licking food. The ANC in Gauteng is chickening out after they lost control of the metro.
– DA Gauteng spokesperson for community safety Michele Clarke calls for Gauteng Community Safety MEC Sizakele NkosiMalobane to be “grilled over her admission that she used R63 800 to treat offenders and other people attending an event at Leeuwkop Prison near Sandton to a KFC meal”.
People don’t realise picking up something you have found amounts to theft.
– Lawyer Simon Dykes after Nicole Bailey pleaded guilty to theft after being caught on CCTV picking up and pocketing a £20 (R323) banknote she found on the floor near an ATM in a shop in the UK.
Warren Buffet has always said the measure is whether people close to you are happy or love you. It’s also nice to feel like you made a difference – inventing something or raising kids or helping people in need. –
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who is worth more than £60 billion (R970bn), on how he measured success.
We let the Reds off the hook. We back the captain in opting to give the forwards a number of chances to seal the win with a try. We… should have secured the win in those last 10 minutes, but did not because of poor discipline and execution.
– Sharks flank Philip van der Walt on captain Patrick Lambie’s decisions to kick for the corners rather than at goal in their 28-26 defeat to the Reds last week.
It would really be a shame if Durban and the country lost the event, but what can we do?
– Durban hotelier Markus Fritz, chairman of the tourism committee of the Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry, on the possible loss of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.