THE WEEK IN WORDS
You might not like me but please respect me. I am not your relative and was not brought to the ANC by you. We are not friends and I don’t want to be your friend. – ANC NEC member Bheki Cele responds to criticism of his statements that he was embarrassed to be an NEC member.
This West Indies lot are the worst Test match team I have seen in more than 50 years of watching, playing and commentating on cricket. They can’t bat and can’t bowl. I take no pleasure out of saying this as I played against some of the greatest players the world has ever seen wearing the maroon cap of the West Indies. It is a cricketing tragedy. – Former England captain Geoff Boycott says there can be no English gloating about thrashing the Caribbean team because the Windies surrender at Edgbaston had been so “painful to watch”.
I was told to resume my duties on Monday. This does not surprise me because there was no real case against me. I felt very betrayed at the way things unfolded. It’s brutality. – eThekwini head of parks recreation and culture, Thembinkosi Ngcobo, after the city dropped his suspension this week to avoid arguing it in court.
... you ask the owners to loan you money to buy this thing. – Mzwanele Manyi explains the vendor financing agreement which saw him buy ANN7 and The New Age from the Guptas.
We are monitoring the situation because it’s right outside my front gate. We heard the crowd, mostly women, screaming then we heard the sound of guns going off. It was total chaos. We took cover as rocks were thrown at our houses. – Bonela resident Javedh Khan, after police and land invaders clashed in the suburb this week.
@Vodacom! Have the decency to tell us what’s the story. I’ve recharged twice. This is thuggery. – @MbauReloaded on Twitter.Vodacom users were livid this week after data and airtime disappeared.
Maybe the open and liberal era will come to an end after so many attacks in Europe. In this sense, we are the victims of terrorists too. – Moroccan woman living in Barcelona on the crazy extremists who caused last week’s bomb carnage in the city
Pupils are mixing cough syrup with cooldrink and having “lean parties” at home and now at school. Teachers and parents are oblivious because the “cocktail” looks like cooldrink. – Tracey Williams of the Wentworth Angels on the latest drug craze at Durban schools.