QUOTES OF THE WEEK

Day Zero can be avoided if all of us can be more positive, move beyond politics and if all of us appreciate that the realities of climate change are upon us and that it is not through throwing money about that the solution will be found. – Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane at the Cape Town Press Club briefing this week on the city’s severe water shortage and impending water switchoff on April 12.

It was less than five minutes and he didn’t take any questions. Really we’re all still in the dark. We don’t know what’s going to happen now. We’ll find out in August. – A source at MultiChoice SA on the address to staff made by the new owner of New Age Media Group, Jimmy Manyi, following MultiChoice’s surprise announcement that it would be dumping ANN7 television channel at the end of its contract in August.

After investors dumped around R47 billion of South African stocks in 2017, foreigners are buying JSE-listed stocks at the fastest pace on record since the beginning of 2018. – Tiffany Pollock, forex and money market trader at Merchant West, on growing investor confidence since Cyril Ramaphosa’s election to the ANC presidency.

When it is whites, it is called collusion and that you should not arrest them, you cannot lay charges against them. It is because they are whites and they are important. They fixed stadiums in 2010. – ANC secretarygeneral Ace Magashule addressing thousands of the party’s supporters in Pietermaritzburg.