THE WEEK IN WORDS
Well, if (Andy Murray) has a problem with his hip, I don’t want to play against him when his hip is good… As I told him at the end – just too good. – Dustin Brown after he lost 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 to top seed Murray at Wimbledon this week. It just seemed difficult to look after the animals for two to three years and get to really know them, and then send them to slaughter. It felt as if you were betraying them. I hope that when they arrive at the refuge the cows will run down the ramp of the lorry into the field and think ‘Wow! We’ve come on holiday’. – Vegetarian Jay Wilde who donated 63 cattle on his inherited farm to an animal sanctuary and will now grow organic vegetables.
All of this happened in one day… one post changed the course
of my life. – Former Lotus FM jock Ravi Govender, known as Ravi G, says he is considering his options after being axed for a Facebook post calling President Jacob Zuma uneducated and a zombie.
Don’t Zulus pay tax? Am I not supposed to get this tax from
my subjects? – King Goodwill Zwelithini says he is entitled to the annual budget allocated to the royal household because it is derived from tax revenue paid by his subjects. How would (sex with a robot) equate to a truly human intimate relationship? Will these robotic dolls be niche? Or will they change societal norms and become widespread? – Noel Sharkey, a professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at Britain’s University of Sheffield, wonders what effect ‘android love dolls’ would have on society. If they choose to fire me, so be it. If they choose to kill me, then so be it. I am a fan of Socrates who had the option to apologise but he did not because he believed in the rule of law. I also believe in the rule of law. – Outspoken ANC MP Makhosi Khoza, who angered ANC leaders this week when she gave media interviews in which she was critical of the ANC and its leaders. She spoke on the sidelines of the national policy conference, in contravention of party rules.
We haven’t really seen a president who seems totally consumed, which he’s been since the election, with the press
as his adversary. – Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer says while many US presidents distrusted and made derogatory statements about the press, current incumbent Donald Trump’s sustained and personal attacks are ‘unprecedented’.