Noteable Quotes

WELL I have to promise them that more shocks are to be provided in future. – Swapo Chief Whip Jhonny Hakaye in reported comments on media organisations expressing shock at stricter laws to regulate them

I WANT to know what the hell is going on. The AGM is for shareholders. There should be discussions. – South African Reserve Bank shareholder Michael Duerr, barefoot and dressed in lederhosen, at the bank’s recent annual general meetingBE honourable. We had this last year too. Shutting up is much more dignified. – Outgoing SARB Governor Tito Mboweni’s replyOF all the sins that Africa can commit, the sin of despair would be the most unforgivable. – Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah (1909 – 1972)WE had a gut feeling that the rot had set in, but I must say that… when we got the briefing I was shocked at the extent of the rot. – SA Parliament’s communications portfolio committee chairman Ismael Vadi on a report of financial irregularities at the SABCWE simply cannot tolerate a situation where people do not feel safe in their homes. – SA Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa on the rising number of house robberies revealed in the latest crime statisticsHE was trying to run away from maintenance by poisoning these two kids. – Police spokesman Inspector Kay Makhubele, on a Soweto man who was jailed for 18 years after feeding his daughter poisoned yoghurt.SHE refused to cook or iron my clothes, but she was my wife. – Former SA spy chief Manala Manzini, admitting to the Sunday Times that he beat his wife who alleged that he married another woman while still legally married to herWE cannot deviate and divert our minds from delivery and think about who will be what in 2012, that’s opportunistic. – President Jacob Zuma to the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) on rumours of plotting to decide the next ANC leader.YOU must know that you are talking to a layman whose highest qualification is matric. – ANCYL leader Julius Malema defending himself in his rape hate speech complaint in SA’s Equality Court.POLITICS is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant. – Henri Queuille (1884 – 1970) was a French radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister.From the history booksGIVEN the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. – William Faulkner (1897-1962) American, Nobel Prize-winning writer (The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!) was born on September 25 1897 IT’S a long old road, but I know I’m gonna find the end. – Bessie Smith (1894 – 1937), known as the ‘Empress of the Blues,’ died in a car crash in Mississippi, USA on September 26 1937THE rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. – George Stephenson (1781 – 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives and is known as the ‘Father of Railways’. He operated the first locomotive to haul a passenger train in England on September 27 1825