"I will not change... driving like this is in my blood. I will continue because it is the only way I know." - An unnamed minibus taxi driver quoted in the Daily Sun during the Johannesburg metro police's crackdown on reckless driving."Coertze and Derby-Lewis will have to keep the champagne on ice for a long time." - Murdered SACP leader Chris Hani's widow Limpho pouring cold water on his killer Clive Derby-Lewis' hopes of getting parole.
"I am busy sorting out this whole thing. I will clarify things when I have sorted out things." - National Assembly correctional services
committee chairman Dennis Bloem on why his name was on Cope's election list while he was still an ANC member.
"For people who speak so much about morals, it is quite immoral. It is politically immoral." - ANC spokeswoman Jessie Duarte after Bloem joined the Congress of the People.
"It will take him time to recover from this shock. I plead with you to accept it, it's the hand of God." - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on the car crash that killed Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife.
"All indications are that this was a genuine accident." - A spokeswoman for Britain's Foreign Office on the car accident that injured Tsvangirai and killed his wife Susan.
"This is a perfect organised hit which was designed to eliminate the President of MDC." - Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Sibanengi Dube on Tsvangirai's accident.
"We are promised a better life, but we only see a better life on TV." - Single mother Sthembile Nkosi to African National Congress president Jacob Zuma in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, quoted in the Sunday Times.
"Elections are really a fleeting moment in which, once every five years, the citizens become sovereign only to find themselves immediately thereafter again disempowered for the following five years." - Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi at an election rally in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal.
"There are no drugs that can reverse that kind of damage. It's irreversible. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see how very ill Schabir is and to realise how precipitous his situation is, and that we are going to have to provide medical care for Schabir at home." -Schabir's brother Yunis Shaik quoted in the Sunday Independent.
"The fact is that this city is stinking rich. The city holds banquets, they fill their tummies with fancy food. The leftovers are then thrown into the bin, and who eats it from the bin? The poor." -- Central Methodist Church Bishop Paul Verryn on the plight of Zimbabwean refugees in Johannesburg's inner city.
"I am just at home and I am going to spend time with my wife and children." -- SAA boss Khaya Ngqula speaking to The Star after he stepped down.
Source : Sapa /th/gj
Date : 12 Mar 2009 12:01
