THE WEEK IN WORDS
Everybody has been saying that I am aligned to the president (Zuma), that the president is my cousin and all sorts of rubbish. He is my friend, so why on earth am I going to say I don’t like him.To say he is my cousin is fabrication. – Former Eskom chairman Ben Ngubane says he is a target of attacks because of his closeness to President Jacob Zuma.
It is far better to help someone else. I didn’t do it to be praised for it, nor did I want to advertise it. All this is very overwhelming, but I just tried to do what was right. – Ixopo wholesaler Suleman “Solly” Bux, now 76, after Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo revealed how, in the late 1970s, Bux had helped him pursue his legal studies by donating groceries to his family.
The kêrels (police) tried busting the ous (drug lords) here; they failed. Every time they take this one drug lord to court, this ou’s got top lawyers and he’s coming
out. – A Reservoir Hills resident, who requested anonymity, says he believed robbery was not a motive for the shooting of four men, one of whom died, by five men in an attack on a shop in the area. He believed it was a “hit”.
I would like to thank you for holding these placards up because you are sending a message. So rather than me being upset, I thank you for doing this in the orderly and professional manner that you have. We will listen to all of the views expressed by South
Africans. – Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, also the chairman of the South African National Aids Council (Sanac), thanks a group of silent protesters during his speech at the 8th South African Aids Conference at Durban’s ICC this week for “being so orderly”. The group held up posters asking why the issue of sex work being decriminalised had been removed from the new five-year National Strategic Plan (NSP) on HIV, Aids and STIs.
The minister is rather coy about her personal involvement in the
process. – Constitutional Court Justice Johan Froneman ordering an investigation to test the veracity of allegations that Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini was to blame for the Sassa mess that put millions of beneficiaries at risk of not receiving their grants in April.