Noteable Quotes

THE problem is that, especially in the rural areas, doctors are seen as demigods. You do things as they say. – Dr Bernhard Haufiku, commenting on claims that doctors at State hospitals are allegedly sterilising HIV positive women without their consent

BEFORE having sex with anyone, people will have to check their partners’ buttocks before proceeding. – Swaziland member of parliament and gospel group leader Timothy Myeni, proposing that HIV-positive people have their bums branded, quoted in the Sunday IndependentIT was very emotional. There were tears in their eyes… they forgave me. – Apartheid minister Adriaan Vlok quoted in Beeld after washing the feet of 13 former police and army members to apologise for leading them on ‘the wrong path’HE does not need to watch Wolverine. He is the wolverine. – An unnamed Soweto man commenting on President Jacob Zuma’s visit to Maponya MallWE can no longer be sure whether the person in possession of a South African passport is 100 per cent South African. – South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on corruption in her departmentI’M still confused and don’t know what’s happening. I will be investing the money in various businesses in Zimbabwe. – Comrades marathon winner Zimbabwean Stephen Muzhingi joking after the raceTHERE is a huge difference between having your say based on fact and using the platform to slag off your employer. – Wits Law Clinic Professor Willem de Klerk commenting on a Durban factory worker who was fired for calling his boss a ‘serial masturbator’ on FacebookTHE SABC is predictable, cowardly and spineless. – Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, aka Zapiro, reacting to the SABC’s decision not to screen a programme concerning himWELL, I think that the ANC should call those hotheads and loudmouths to account. – Western Cape premier Helen Zille, on an MK Military Veterans’ Association plan to march on her office in response to her comments about President Jacob Zuma putting his wives at risk of contracting HIV.I WOKE up this morning worried about our finances. Something made me think to check the tickets and I thought that if I win something, then I could help mum and dad out. – An Australian woman who discovered she had won more than US10 million from a lottery ticket she bought 10 months ago(OBAMA) liked it so much that when they had the election, they called me and asked if they could order six more for their Election Night party. – Chicago restaurant co-owner Eduard Seitan, on US President Barack Obama’s preference for South Africa’s Graham Beck Brut NV wineFrom the history booksIT is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Sir Edmund Hillary, who with Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay, became the first to reach the top of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, on May 29 1953I’VE heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes. – George Harrison of the Beatles while on a US trip. On May 30 1968 they began work on their only double album ‘Beatles’GOD, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. – US theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943. He died on May 31 1971