THE WEEK IN WORDS
I am being targeted because of my stand on radical economic transformation. There are people who want me silenced because they are the people who want the majority of black people to remain poor while they remain rich. – Jacob Zuma outside the Durban High Court yesterday.
Today we have lost a mother, a leader and an icon. Even at the darkest moments of our struggle for liberation, Mam’ Winnie was an abiding symbol of the desire of our people to be free. In the midst of repression she was a voice of defiance and resistance. In the face of exploitation she was a champion of justice and equality. – President Cyril Ramaphosa on the death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela this week.
How do Australia perform when they’re not allowed to tamper with the ball? They lose by 492! That’s a loss of English proportions. – Tweet by @dannypmiller after South Africa won the fourth cricket Test this week and the series 3-1.
This was spectacular. I jumped very high, so obviously it’s a goal that stays in the memory and is surely my best goal. It just came into my head to do it and I caught the ball well. Other times it has gone wrong, but you have to always try. I tried and scored a goal. – Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid after his bicycle-kick goal against Juventus in the Champions League this week.
Courageous, determined and with unique charm and tenacity to overcome any challenge, she launched The Pam Golding Property Group in 1976 when the industry was male-dominated. She built a reputation for selling the country’s most luxurious homes with integrity, trust and respect. – The Golding family on the death of Pam Golding in Constantia this week, aged 90.
It means everything to me – two years ago an Olympic medal and now two years later Commonwealth champion… I am just so happy that I could do this for my country… for supporters and, most importantly, for my family and my girlfriend. – Triathlete Henri Schoeman on taking South Africa’s first gold medal at the Commonwealth Games on Thursday.
I think I am doing a great job. I have never fallen in love and have never got married. I have no physical or psychological diseases. But I live on a planet that is full of injustice and diseases. – Vegan blogger Nasim Najafi Aghdam on her Instagram page just before she attacked YouTube’s headquarters, wounding three people, then killing herself.
It is incredulous that the ANC is associating itself with an antiSemitic and anti-democratic
group like BDS SA. – The SA Jewish Board of Deputies after the ANC called for a cultural boycott of Israel following criticism of DJ Black Coffee’s recent trip there.