Noteable Quotes

IT is going to be a big party, a mother of all parties. We are expecting a lot of people to come and celebrate with us. – Leader of the Nxamalala clan, inkosi Bheki Zuma, who is related to President Jacob Zuma and is organising a huge party where 25 cattle will be slaughtered to celebrate the new president’s coming to power

WE’VE had an amazing stroke of luck. Our thoughts are with those in the plane. – Amina Jaffiol, wife of French medical professor Claude Jaffiol, at Rio’s international airport after they were unable to get seats on the ill-fated Air France flight missing with 228 people on boardOUR elections are free – it’s in the results where eventually we pay. – Bill Stern (1907 – 1971) was a US actor and sportscaster who announced the nation’s first remote sports broadcast and the first telecast of a Major League Baseball game. IT is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. – Ivan Goncharov, novelist (1812-1891)WHEN the music changes, so does the dance. – African proverbFrom the history booksSURELY the day will come when colour means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. – Josephine Baker (1906 – 1975) was an African American expatriate entertainer and actress who became a French citizen in 1937. She was born on June 3 1906