A selection of quotes of Southern African interest. This feature moves every Thursday.
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"Oh, is it still there?" -- Desmond Grootboom, quoted in The Star, when told his Renault Clio was still at OR Tambo Airport's short-term parking, 14 months after his friend was meant to have moved it. The ticket would cost him an estimated R42,000.
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"He phoned at the halfway mark in Port Edward just to check in [with me]. He said he was excited about having a strong tailwind for the ride back." -- Burry Stander's wife Cherise, quoted in The Sunday Times, on their conversation before a minibus taxi hit the cycling champion, killing him.
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"It is worth celebrating, even though we still have challenges... but there is no crisis." -- Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announcing the Gauteng 2012 matric results.
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"The ANC has bared its own soul... and has admitted a lot of those [negative] things. Now that, to me, is indicative of a party that is quite ready to start a process of correcting quite a lot of those perceptions." -- ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa.
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"As we stagger into 2013, instead of fretting about unemployment among the two-legged, the president has craftily ensured that the entire nation is bickering over the cultural status of the four-legged." -- Fido Ferocious, a "Ukrainian frizz-haired chakuzi", which was "interviewed" in Business Day.
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"Without wanting to sound arrogant, we state categorically that we cannot imagine an SA without the ANC." -- President Jacob Zuma speaking in Durban at an event to mark the end of the party's centenary celebrations. Business Day.
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"[Greed] is eating [the ANC] to death. [Some ANC members] have become like mice in a cheese factory." -- ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe, quoted in The Times.
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"Some people will say it is irresponsible to go unless you know everything, in which case the Americans would never have gotten to the moon. If humans are going for something new, then unfortunately there are bound to be some grey areas." -- British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, speaking ahead of his attempt to cross Antarctica during winter.
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"If you don't protect the people, I am going to protect them myself. When people rioted during Kenneth Kaunda's time, it was the food riots... that caused him to be removed from power. I don't want food riots." --Zambia's President Michael Sata, quoted by AFP, speaking before a meeting with millers, who had been selling corn at steep prices.
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"Outa members firmly believe that the grounds and merits of this appeal are very strong, and that leaving the judgment unchallenged will set a significantly erroneous precedent." -- The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance's chairman Musa Strachan, announcing it would appeal a court ruling dismissing its attempt to have e-tolling in Gauteng scrapped.
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"The environment here is very straining. We had some gang clashes that interrupted our classes in July." -- Chris Mazibuko, 23, an inmate at Durban's Westville Prison who got five distinctions in his matric exams, as quoted in the Sunday Times.
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"Oh, is it still there?" -- Desmond Grootboom, quoted in The Star, when told his Renault Clio was still at OR Tambo Airport's short-term parking, 14 months after his friend was meant to have moved it. The ticket would cost him an estimated R42,000.
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"He phoned at the halfway mark in Port Edward just to check in [with me]. He said he was excited about having a strong tailwind for the ride back." -- Burry Stander's wife Cherise, quoted in The Sunday Times, on their conversation before a minibus taxi hit the cycling champion, killing him.
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"It is worth celebrating, even though we still have challenges... but there is no crisis." -- Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announcing the Gauteng 2012 matric results.
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"The ANC has bared its own soul... and has admitted a lot of those [negative] things. Now that, to me, is indicative of a party that is quite ready to start a process of correcting quite a lot of those perceptions." -- ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa.
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"As we stagger into 2013, instead of fretting about unemployment among the two-legged, the president has craftily ensured that the entire nation is bickering over the cultural status of the four-legged." -- Fido Ferocious, a "Ukrainian frizz-haired chakuzi", which was "interviewed" in Business Day.
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"Without wanting to sound arrogant, we state categorically that we cannot imagine an SA without the ANC." -- President Jacob Zuma speaking in Durban at an event to mark the end of the party's centenary celebrations. Business Day.
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"[Greed] is eating [the ANC] to death. [Some ANC members] have become like mice in a cheese factory." -- ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe, quoted in The Times.
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"Some people will say it is irresponsible to go unless you know everything, in which case the Americans would never have gotten to the moon. If humans are going for something new, then unfortunately there are bound to be some grey areas." -- British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, speaking ahead of his attempt to cross Antarctica during winter.
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"If you don't protect the people, I am going to protect them myself. When people rioted during Kenneth Kaunda's time, it was the food riots... that caused him to be removed from power. I don't want food riots." --Zambia's President Michael Sata, quoted by AFP, speaking before a meeting with millers, who had been selling corn at steep prices.
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"Outa members firmly believe that the grounds and merits of this appeal are very strong, and that leaving the judgment unchallenged will set a significantly erroneous precedent." -- The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance's chairman Musa Strachan, announcing it would appeal a court ruling dismissing its attempt to have e-tolling in Gauteng scrapped.
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"The environment here is very straining. We had some gang clashes that interrupted our classes in July." -- Chris Mazibuko, 23, an inmate at Durban's Westville Prison who got five distinctions in his matric exams, as quoted in the Sunday Times.
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