Noteable Quotes

EVEN though Peter’s English is efficient, there are one or two words that can be interpreted differently and that can change the meaning of what he is trying to say. – SA Rugby Union president Oregan Hoskins on why Springbok coach Peter de Villiers will be allowed to speak Afrikaans at media briefings

THE minister neither has powers nor ambition to hire and fire national coaches. – South Africa’s Sport and Recreation Ministry denying reports that Makhenkesi Stofile wanted a hand in the appointment of national coachesAWB was better than ANC. – A placard displayed by Tokugawa residents protesting against lack of service deliveryWE don’t know which political party it was, or what promises were made. – Police spokesman Inspector Gordon Billing after a Katlehong man threatened to jump off a Johannesburg building after he was made ‘political promises’ that were not keptAS a Catholic I am ashamed. St Benedict must be turning in his grave. – A reader of The Star newspaper responding to a report about bullying at the Johannesburg schoolTHE ANC will take all the necessary steps to remove the adverts, some advertising pornography, which have nothing to do with the ANC. We did not place the content and have no relation with the person that hacked into our website to embarrass the ANC. – Party spokesman Brian Sokutu after adverts appeared on the party’s website for, among others, pornography and penis enlargementsTHE province is deeply divided and factions are almost institutionalised in that they are known and openly talked about. In the same period of 10 years at least, strange tendencies and ill discipline have developed to the point where individuals are more loyal to their factions than the organisation. – ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe after the North West’s leadership committee was disbandedI LEFT the church for a variety of reasons, chief among them being that I realised God does not exist. I am an atheist. – Eastern Cape candidate judge Torquil Paterson in an interview with the Judicial Service CommissionI THINK if you can get rid of Mugabe, get rid of him. The guy has destroyed his country. There are many people in his country who have died who should not have died, because of what he has done. – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair quoted in Germany’s Stern magazineLOVE me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. – Swedish proverb From the history booksTHE limits (of photographers) should be good taste. There is a limit where someone should just say, ‘stop.’ You shouldn’t let it go this far.’ – Tazio Secchiaroli, one of the world’s most famous photographers and the ‘paparazzo’ who inspired Federico Fellini’s film ‘La Dolce Vita’. Secchiaroli died on July 24 1998ART can change your life. It holds a power that is so strong that it can melt even a dreaded Stasi officer. – German actor Ulrich Muehe, whose haunting portrayal of an East German secret police agent in the Oscar-winning drama ‘The Lives of Others’ won him international acclaim, died on July 25 2007I WANT to ask you all to take note of what you saw here today, the power and the majesty of the launch, of course, but also the competence and the professionalism, the sheer gall, the pluckiness, the grittiness of this team that pulled this programme out of the depths of despair two years ago and made it fly. – Michael Griffin, Nasa’s administrator. Nasa successfully launched space shuttle Discovery, the first space shuttle flight since the fatal Columbia accident of 2003, on July 26, 2005