THE WEEK IN WORDS
COMPILED BY TANYA WATERWORTH
He said he offered them his cellphone, his watch and his bike but they didn’t want them. They just held him down and started sawing his legs. – Sandile Shange, friend of triathlete and lifesaver Mhlengi Gwala who was brutally attacked while out cycling early on Tuesday morning. Whenever someone says something which white people dislike, he is attacked by the white establishment using black people. This means that we are not yet free because we are still under their control. They threaten you to such an extent that you end up avoiding being targeted by them. – Former president Jacob Zuma speaking at a gala evening hosted by the National Funeral Practitioners Association of SA (Nafupa SA) in Durban on Thursday evening. Nafupa SA previously called for a ban on Indian- and whiteowned companies from entering townships to conduct funeral services. They stood against Mafia who had invaded their movement’s inner-circles. They were not only brave anti-apartheid fighters, they were incorruptible. We live in a kleptocratic state which was captured a long time ago. It’s not always by the same people and not always in the same way. We’ve seen friends appoint friends and then they work for who appointed them and not in the public interest. – Evelyn Groenink, author of a new book,
Incorruptible, on the murders of anti-apartheid activists Anton Lubowski, Dulcie September and Chris Hani. Abusers of minor children are walking freely due to the incompetence and failure of stakeholders in our criminal justice system. The latest research shows that only one out of each nine minor victims reports abuse and only 8% of these cases will result in conviction. – Jheneen Lotter, Advocacy Against Child Abuse, commenting on the video of an assault on a four-year-old from Phoenix, which triggered social media outrage this week. The decision to get involved with the Lions was purely a business decision. They are a winning team and we wanted to be associated with a winning brand but we know that the Sharks are very serious about rebuilding themselves into the great Sharks eras of the past and we want to be involved in that. – Nick Jonsson, chief executive of Jonsson Workwear, commenting on the partnership announcement this week which will see the rugby stadium named Jonsson Kings Park. He’s a minister skating on thin ice and is hugely implicated in Gupta scandals. I do believe (Malusi) Gigaba was placed back in Home Affairs… to answer questions around the Gupta family, but once Ramaphosa garners greater capacity to act, I will not be surprised if Gigaba is one of the first ministers to face the axe. – Political analyst Imraan Buccus on Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba defending his decision to allow the Guptas into the country.