THE WEEK IN WORDS
You can get a wild card when you return from injury but you cannot get a wild card when returning from a doping suspension. I appreciate the media impact of Maria, I appreciate the broadcasters’ expectations but, in conscience, it was not possible to go beyond the anti-doping code and beyond the application of the rules… – FFT president Bernard Giudicelli explains why the ruling body refused to give Sharapova a wild-card entry to the French Open. These people are thieves. Wherever you go there’s an outcry about unemployment and lack of skills development opportunities. The EPWP (Expanded Public Works Programme) is for the unemployed and is meant to empower them. These thieves do not deserve to work at the municipality and they must pay back all the money they stole from the government. – Mdu Nkosi, eThekwini Municipality IFP Exco member, after a report that permanent municipality employees had benefited from the Expanded Public Works Programme. So the ANC Youth League, eThekwini, is calling for my recall because I want the ANC to survive for another 200 years? Why do they want the ANC dead? Please help. I’m not getting it! – ANC MP Makhosi Khoza on her Facebook page after the ANC Youth League announced protests against her for being hostile to President Jacob Zuma. …a father had dropped his son off at school and was talking on his cellphone. He had not locked the car doors and this woman opened the door and got inside. By the time the neighbourhood watch team had arrived, the woman was holding up a condom claiming that they were about to get physical and the driver refused to pay her. – A Glenwood community activist, who asked not to be named, warns male drivers in Glenwood to keep their car doors locked.
We are excited to be part of the historic staging of two rugby games at two of Durban’s bestloved stadiums, Moses Mabhida and Kings Park, over the Youth
Day weekend. – Moses Mabhida Stadium general manager Vusi Mazibuko at the news that Moses Mabhida will host its debut rugby match when the SA “A” team faces a star-studded French Barbarians side on June 16. The following day, Kings Park hosts the Castle Lager Incoming Series Test between the Springboks and France.