THE WEEK IN WORDS
You have been thinking you are a hero when you are a zero. Those who are resigning, know what they have done. I am ready for them. We said we would deal with corruption and we are going to deal with corruption. – eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede in council this week responding as to why 12 senior officials had either been fired, reassigned, suspended or resigned from their jobs. We are keen for the Currie Cup and we have a lot to prove, a lot of wrongs to fix. We did not do well last year, so no excuses this year. – Sharks hooker Franco Marais ahead of the Pumas game today. What is special about these dogs. You can get a thoroughbred German shepherd or Labrador for less than R10 000. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to tell you that the price paid for these dogs is exorbitant. – eThekwini DA councillor Heinz de Boer on the fact that metro police purchased 20 dogs for R1.2 million.
The people of Nkandla think they’ve got a neighbour; that guy is no longer your neighbour, he’s going to stay in Dubai, he’s got a house in Dubai bought with stolen money. – EFF leader Julius Malema referring to President Jacob Zuma while speaking to students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal this week. The cameras are positioned in such a way that they capture images from above, and if a person is wearing a hoodie, hat or cap, the image is not clear. – Naeem Rahiman of Business Against Crime on a proposal to ban people wearing caps or hoodies in shopping malls. She organised when I came home from school to have Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell waiting at the top of the stairs. I was probably a 12- or 13-year-old boy who had posters of them on his wall. I went bright red and didn’t know what to say. And sort of stumbled and I think pretty much fell down the stairs on the way up. – Britain’s Prince William in a documentary recalling his mother Diana Princess of Wales 20 years after her death. If somebody actually wants to get in the water and race side-by-side with a great white, go ahead. It would be interesting to see. We’ll leave it at that. – Michael Phelps to fans disappointed the race with a great white shark this week wasn’t actually a head-to-head race. I make no excuses for what happened last year in the 200m fly. I said it was the worst performance of my life and I vowed to come back stronger. – SA swimmer Chad le Clos after winning the event at Budapest this week in a time that would have won him Olympic gold in Rio.