THE WEEK IN WORDS
We are to get into serious business. We must be clear of the foundation. People are to be bruised when they appear
before this committee. – Hlomane Chauke, Home Affairs portfolio committee chairperson, on what appearing witnesses can expect in the upcoming parliamentary inquiry into the naturalisation of the Guptas.
They have a lot of continuity in their side from Super Rugby to the Test arena. The difficult thing about the first game of the Championship is it tends to be about continuity and running together well. They (Argentina) already are there, they have the same style, the same coaching staff; and they will just slot in from Super Rugby to Tests. – Springbok Rugby forward coach Matthew Proudfoot ahead of the Rugby Championship clash in Durban today.
Parastatals should be treated the same way we treat a resident and cut them off. We can’t penalise the ordinary citizen who is trying really hard to make payments and not do the same to parastatals. – DA councillor Heinz de Boer on debt amounting to millions of rand owed by parastatals to eThekwini Municipality.
I have to find it. – Former head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Mxolisi Nxasana during a radio interview this week regarding the R10 million the Constitutional Court has ordered he must pay back of the R17.3 m “golden handshake” he was given by former president Jacob Zuma.
This issue is getting out of hand. People looking for teaching jobs but who are without qualifications are buying these, but fortunately we have been able to catch them because we are working very closely with the universities … We would like these people to see the inside of a prison because this behaviour is damaging to the teaching profession. – Themba Ndhlovu, of the SA Council of Educators (SACE), on fraudulent qualifications in the teaching profession.
I’m happy with where the side is going. Of course I’m not happy to lose and I’m sure the people watching back home aren’t happy, but from the get-go, we said it wasn’t about winning for us. – Proteas coach Ottis Gibson on the tour to Sri Lanka and preparing for the World Cup.
It is only the beginning of the process to have justice prevail for the victims whose stories are told in the book. – Mark Minnie to Tafelberg Publishers prior to his death of apparent suicide this week. Minnie was co-author of The Lost Boys of Bird Island, which contains revelations of alleged child abuse by former National Party ministers in the late 1980s.