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“[But] if I respond as a human being and the fact that I caused the death of fellow South Africans, albeit in a conflict, albeit in an unequal and oppressive society, then I don’t feel proud that I have caused the death and injury to South Africans or other human beings. I don’t request understanding from anyone.” — Robert Mcbride in an interview at the launch of

by Bryan Rostron. In 1986 Mcbride and Matthew Lecordier put a bomb in a car on Durban’s beachfront. Three people died and 69 were injured. Mcbride spent five years on death row.

“I managed to get rid of comrades who were in the city to serve themselves and their political parties instead of society. I inherited a public service that thought it was doing people favours instead of residents doing them a favour. It is the people that did us a favour for putting us into these positions.” — Herman Mashaba, outgoing mayor of Johannesburg, speaking on Radio 702.

“We have tabled a political motion of no confidence against the mayor of Tshwane and he will soon be voted out with his racist party, the DA. His reported office activities seem to be learned from acting leader [John] Steenhuisen who also ‘gossips’ in the office, so it’s their thing!” — Economic Freedom Fighters deputy president Floyd Shivambu in a tweet after the Democratic Alliance put Stevens Mokgalapa on special leave over an alleged “sex scandal”.

“It is a Democrat scam that is going nowhere but future presidents should in no way be compromised. What has happened to me should never happen to another president!” — United States President Donald Trump tweeting about the impeachment inquiry into his attempt at a quid pro quo deal with Ukraine.