Notable Quotes
FORGET the Presidential motorcade, we’ll need a buscade at the rate he’s going. – A reader’s comment on South African President Jacob Zuma’s love child with the daughter of a friend and soccer boss
AS the ANC, we have always made a distinction between people’s personal affairs and their public responsibilities. – Party spokesman Brian Mthembu.
WHY does our President display such stereotypical bad behaviour of a randy black womaniser? I feel ashamed. Making babies like South Africa does not have a huge HIV-Aids problem coupled with gender problems... How are the youth expected to behave? – Housing Minister Tokyo Sexwale’s niece Kananelo Sexwale in a comment on Facebook
WE are Africans and sitting here all of us, Zuma is our father so we are not qualified to talk about that. – ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on Zuma’s love child.
SOME people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. – Caroline Schoeder
PLENTY of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble. – François de la Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680), French classical author
RESEARCH in the UK shows those born at the start of the school year also do better academically and have more confidence. – Senior research fellow Adrian Barnett, from Queensland University of Technology’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, has found that a person’s birth month could determine their health and fitness
YOU may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. – Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931), Lebanese-born American philosophical essayist, novelist and poet
WHEN history opens a window of opportunity, it is important to jump through it. – Former president FW de Klerk in a speech commemorating the 20th anniversary of his address to Parliament in which he announced the release of Nelson Mandela.
CHILDREN are one-third of our population and all of our future. – Unknown
LOGIC will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955), German-born American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity.
IF a person stands up and his clothes stick between his buttocks it means he is in the habit of telling lies. – East African superstition
From the history books
THERE is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. – South African President Nelson Mandela. He made his last State of the Nation speech to parliament on February 5, 1999, before retiring in May that year
SUCCESS is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. – Arthur Ashe, US tennis great and the first black to win the Wimbledon men’s title. He died on February 6, 1993, aged 49
IT’S easy to quit smoking. I’ve done it hundreds of times. – American novelist Mark Twain. On February 7, 2005, Cuba, a country known for its fine cigars and where more than half of adults smoke, banned smoking in public