THE WEEK IN WORDS
What happened over the weekend is that we lost the people. This decision will be a defining moment in how we decided to leave the people of South Africa behind. – SACP second deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila comment on the ANC NEC’s failure to remove President Jacob Zuma.
I wish to caution you against falsely accusing innocent people. Crime affects all of us and can only be eradicated if society acts in unison, within the ambits of the law, to bring the perpetrators to book... let us not take matters into our own hands. – Mayor Zandile Gumede in an open letter KZN citizens in the wake of looting and violence after fake stories of child abduction were spread on social media.
According to the survey (Victims of Crime), most residents did not report crime because they believed the police could not or
would not do anything. – South African Statistician-General Pali Lehohla tells the media the country will only be able to enjoy a crimefree society by 2059, rather than 2030 as envisaged by the National Development Plan.
And he started to strangle me and then tried to poke my eye out, but I continued fighting and then I grasped at his genitals and he moved back ... I said, ‘Please don’t kill me, John’, and then I asked ‘Where’s Sandra?’, and he said, ‘She’s dead. Don’t look’. – Lady Lucan talks about the night her husband, Lord ‘Lucky’ Lucan, beat to death their nanny Sandra Rivett, 29, and then attacked her before disappearing.
The suspect raised his hands and apologised, pleading for mercy. Holding the gun trained on the suspect, the driver ordered him off the bus, pushing him along the road. When he was a safe distance away, the driver got back into the bus and drove to the Scottburgh police station where he handed in the pistol. – Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane describes how a 66-year-old bus driver from Phoenix turned the tables on an attacker this week by taking possession of his 9mm gun.
Coach Allister and I had a good chat and he told me I can still make a contribution towards the Springboks, while I told him I would do my best for the team when I join them. – Frans Steyn joins the Springbok squad at their training camp in Plettenberg Bay as they prepare for the series against France, which starts on June 10, at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. He last played for the Boks in 2012.