Noteable Quotes

THINGS must stop here. – Henry January sitting down in front of a police line during a demonstration at a Defence Force Base in Bloemfontein in a protest for payouts for ex-SWATF soldiers

I WITHDREW from the election, the other candidate withdrew. There was only one candidate so there was no election. Only one candidate, and that person was duly appointed. – 2010 World Cup local organising committee chief executive officer Danny Jordaan on Kirsten Nematandani’s controversial election as South African Football Association presidentTHIS has been a lengthy and painful battle to have the constitutional rights of these 384 political prisoners recognised and again we have now been instructed to start this entire process again. The system has once again failed these prisoners. – Inkatha Freedom Party Chief Whip Koos van der Merwe on the Constitutional Court’s ruling that the president, and not the justice minister, be held accountable for the delay in the applications for presidential pardonsI ASSURE you this court will do its duty to show crime does not pay. – Pretoria High Court Judge Ephraim Makgoba in sentencing Mozambicans Petro Markel and Christovao Fresco Ndima to life plus 15 years’ imprisonment for murdering Welsh businessman Fred Picton-Turbervill in Pretoria last yearI CAN’T say exactly when… it’s a matter of pressing the send button. – Eskom spokesman Andrew Etzinger on the delay in submitting Eskom’s tariff submission to the National Energy Regulator of South AfricaWE believe that attempts to remove him as president for his genuine attempts to protect Caster Semenya are opportunistic and should be rejected. – ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema on Athletics South Africa (ASA) President Leonard ChueneWHAT continuously comes out is people feel that we talk and at the end of the day transgressing officials only get the wag of the finger. – SA Standing Committee on Public Accounts chairman Themba Godi on public officials who lie to ParliamentIT is not like in the past where AK-47s were used, today helicopters and other means are used in poaching. – Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica on the poaching of rhinosTHIS is to ensure access to Pride for under-resourced lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, and to promote broad representation and participation by the full spectrum of the LGBTI community. – Joburg Pride Gay Festival company on bus transport that will be provided for people living in the townships who want to attend this year’s 20th annual Joburg Pride paradeIT is not clear if the animal is in fact experiencing a miscarriage or whether she is constipated. It is amazing how much is read into a few video clips. – Game reserve owner Jurie Moolman on ‘vitriolic attacks’ launched against him and his staff after their refusal to intervene in the plight of a cow elephant in distressFrom the history booksCELEBRITY status is something I have managed to dodge quite successfully all my life. – South African novelist JM Coetzee after winning his second Booker prize in 1999 for ‘Disgrace’. On October 2, 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Literature PrizeONLY peace will emanate from German soil in future. – German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in a message to world leaders marking the end of Germany’s 45-year division. East and West Germany formally united at midnight on October 3, 1990, ending 45 years of Cold War divisionAUDIENCES like their blues singers to be miserable. – The US blues and rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead of a drug overdose on October 4, 1970