Noteable Quotes

YOU can’t be soft and you can’t be moving around kissing crime. You need to be tough because you’re dealing with tough guys. – Newly appointed South African national police commissioner Bheki Cele

I NEVER said the ruling of the court should be in favour of Zuma. – Cape Judge President John Hlophe speaking at his long-awaited inquiry into whether he tried to influence a Constitutional Court judgment involving President Jacob ZumaESSENTIALISE my salary, I will essentialise your service. – A placard displayed by a Johannesburg emergency service worker during a strikeWHEN a street cleaner upturns a rubbish bag, does it not occur to journalists and commentators that this might be an act of defiance, of for once being visible, of not being taken for granted? – Samwu general secretary Mthandeki Nhlapo defending the actions of striking municipal workersCHILDREN in rural areas have to walk kilometres in cold conditions because transport tenders were not awarded or routes were changed without consultation or insight. Of course she is entitled to transportation, but it is the extravagance thereof that is worrying. – Head of school governing bodies associationin South Africa, Fedsas, Paul Colditz after Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga spent R1,6 million on two new official carsTHERE is no need to be closing schools. It will be disrupting learners and they will go to shopping malls anyway. – SA Health Department spokesman Fidel Hadebe on schools’ attempts to prevent the spread of swine fluTHESE are the people who derail the progress of service delivery. – Gauteng local government and housing MEC Kgaogelo Lekgoro following the arrest of an ex-councillor who allegedly took bribes from people applying for RDP housesLIVE for something rather than die for nothing. – George Smith Patton, (1885 – 1945) was a distinguished though controversial United States Army officerLIVE so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. – H Jackson Brown, Jr is an American author best-known for his book ‘Life’s Little Instruction Book’ which was a New York Times bestsellerGOD gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. – Swedish proverbFrom the history booksDISMANTLING of the infrastructure of fear that has ruled the world. – Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet President. On July 31, 1991, US President George Bush and Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev signed the START treaty cutting their nuclear arsenals at the end of a two-day summit.WHAT happened in the past is the past. – British prime minister Tony Blair. Blair began the first visit to Argentina by a British prime minister since the 1982 Falklands WarIN photography, you’ve got to be quick, quick, quick, quick, like an animal and a prey. – Frenchman Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, died on August 2 2004