"We are not afraid of the IFP. We must go back to Nongoma and campaign. We must campaign everywhere in KwaZulu even at the backyard of Mangosuthu Buthelezi's backyard." -- ANCYL president Julius Malema."It is an act of extreme provocation and an unforgivable insult for Julius Malema to say that he will campaign in Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi's backyard and that he will go and recruit Prince Buthelezi's children to join the ANC." -- IFP Youth Brigade spokesman Thulasizwe Buthelezi responding to remarks by the ANCYL president.
"ANC president Jacob Zuma lives in an IFP-controlled ward within an IFP-controlled municipality. Yet no IFP member has ever gone to his homestead to campaign out of respect for the office he holds." -- Buthelezi.
"Julius Malema is no more than an ill-bred brat whose behaviour is not only un-African, but crude by the standards of any culture in the world." -- IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
"She must use her fake accent to address our problems." -- Malema criticising Education Minister Naledi Pandor in a speech to Tshwane University of Technology students.
"Not here! In your cap!" -- Regimental sergeant major Arnoldus to a woman soldier, part of the ceremonial guard at the opening of Parliament, who fell ill during the ceremony.
"Because whether it was the deputy president in 2005, being relieved of his duties, nicely he went off, no problem. Whether the president [Mbeki] was recalled [in September last year], nicely off he went. Clearly, we are dealing with mature leadership who do not fight back if there is any decision taken against them." -- Zuma describing former president Thabo Mbeki's departure, in a television interview after the State of the Nation address.
"I told you what you wanted to hear." -- Kelebogile Mmokwa, the 24-year-old who claimed President Kgalema Motlanthe had impregnated her, telling the Sunday Independent that she lied to journalists.
"We laugh to stop ourselves from crying." -- A sign displayed by villagers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, fearing attacks by Lords Resistance Army members, during a visit by a UN official.
"If he comes here he is going to die." -- A Zandspruit resident after the Johannesburg High Court acquitted a man accused of raping and murdering a seven-year-old girl, who they maintain is guilty, quoted in The Star.
"We supported the president's decision because Pikoli had messed up in his duties as National Director of Public Prosecutions." -- Oupa Monareng, chairman of the special parliamentary committee that discussed former president Thabo Mbeki's dismissal of Vusi Pikoli.
"The storm that we spoke of last year has broken, and it is more severe than anyone anticipated." -- The start of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel's Budget speech.
Source : Sapa /th/gj
Date : 12 Feb 2009 12:05
