Noteable Quotes

THE ACC should also inspect the integrity of those they are investigating. – Justice Minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana, criticising the fact that allegations and charges investigated by the ACC appear in the media

THE ANC is going to help us. They are taking a long time, but I still hope they will come one day. – ANC supporter Rahab Modise (24) from the Munsieville Town near Johannesburg about casting her vote in Wednesday’s electionTHEY are free to watch the national channels aired by the state-run network, but we can’t allow inmates to watch private channels for security reasons. We have to go by the rules. – BD Sharma, the inspector general of West Bengal prisons, after hundreds of inmates at a prison in Kolkata went on a hunger strike after they were not allowed to watch Indian Premier League cricket matches taking place in South AfricaIN their youth both Herder and Schiller (both philosophers) intended to study as surgeons, but Destiny said: ‘No, there are deeper wounds than those of the body, – heal the deeper!’ and they wrote. – German writer Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)HE who forgives ends the argument. – African proverbFrom the history booksA PERSON who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Mark Twain, the pen name for American author and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910) who died on April 21 1910