THE WEEK IN WORDS
COMPILED BY FRANK CHEMALY
Love Durban, gutted… so just going to focus on 2017 World Champs. –
A tweet from Olympic gold medallist Chad le Clos after Durban lost the right to host the Commonwealth Games. It took a lot of energy and effort to put together a comprehensive bid for this event, and we would not have wasted our time bidding if we were not sure of our capacity and capability to host the event. – Former eThekwini mayor James Nxumalo. This was never a good idea and now the country and Durban have egg on their faces. – Dawie Roodt, chief economist at the Efficient Group on the Commonwealth statement. Greece is still bankrupt because of the Olympics. You can imagine if we go bankrupt because of the Commonwealth Games. You will be toyi-toying every day and saying that Mbalula can’t think. –
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula on why the government wouldn’t stand the guarantees for the Games. They can call me what they want. Until they have a manager that wins four premier leagues for them, I’m the No 1. –
Man United and former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho after Chelsea fans called him “Judas” when Man U lost to Chelsea 1-0 in the FA Cup quarter final this week. She is a minister to ensure that beneficiaries receive their social grants. I genuinely want to understand how we got to this level that can be characterised as absolute incompetence. – Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng at the Constitutional Court hearing. I don’t see the devastation, I just saw the surf because, as a surfer, you wait a long time for waves like this. And if there are waves, you’ve got to surf them. – Ree Saunders of Jeffreys Bay, who surfed the waves unaware that the beaches had been closed. We are not unreasonable people. One thing we have proven is we can do the job. Is there anybody who can step into our shoes? The answer is no, except for the Post Office and the pigeons they can use to, you know, fly the money around. –
Serge Belamant, chief executive of Net1, a CPS subsidiary that delivers social grants, outside the Constitutional Court after a hearing on the Sassa debacle. Tomorrow a true kidnapping will happen and people won’t bother because of this. –
@ Hlengz on Twitter after a mother was arrested for claiming her onemonth-old baby had been hijacked.