THE WEEK IN WORDS
It’s a patience game, it’s a true
test of character. – Proteas spin bowler Keshav Maharaj after he scored his second five-wicket haul in as many Tests and the man of the match award in Wellington, New Zealand, this week.
Maybe it was a good thing it was such a poor performance. We will lift our game against the Cheetahs. – Sharks assistant coach Ryan Strudwick after his team’s lucky last-minute win against the lowly Kings last Saturday.
I was so scared, but I told myself what should happen must happen, but I won’t allow myself to be disrespected like that.
– Lebohang Mabuya after she defended herself against a man in Texamo Spur at a shopping centre, south of Johannesburg, in a video post that went viral this week.
Let’s make this clear: colonialism, like apartheid, was a system of oppression and subjugation. It can never be
justified. – A tweet by DA leader Mmusi Maimane about a tweet by former DA leader Helen Zille over what appeared to be a defence of colonialism.
We had to avoid a situation where any person in power could dish out land to his pals or lovers. That’s not what we were fighting for. That’s not the sort of emancipation we had in mind. At the same time property law in SA could not be looked at like the old colonial property laws. We have to look at it in the context of massive dispossession in our country. – Former Constitutional Court judge Albie Sachs on the thinking behind the property rights clause in the consitution and why it does not need to be changed.
It has all the hallmarks of a carefully orchestrated operation that is more usually associated with a repressive state in which the rule of law is deliberately trampled on. – Lawson Naidoo of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution after a break-in at the offices of Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng in Midrand on Saturday.
He did confess. We feel it every day. it opens old wounds. Our father brought us up with morals and values. We loved him like a brother and what he did was an absolute betrayal. – Sandra Baliram, sister of slain Shanaaz Sewnarain at her husband Rajiv’s bail application.
I said, ‘You will not touch our children’ and I closed their bedroom door.’ – Angela Stirk whose Westville home was invaded by armed robbers on Tuesday.