NOTABLE QUOTES - Click to see who said what from the stories making headlines
- Karabo's clumsy exit from Generations
- Beefy Benni banished - even from the substitute's bench
- Have we descended below worst kind of barbarism?
- 'Comrades have a right to tender'
- Girl band singer confesses to unprotected HIV sex
- Judgment date set in Mulalo Sivhidzho's murder trial
- Court frees food thief jailed for 25 years
- Patients refused treatment
- 'Weakest Link host committed suicide'
- Swimming still banned in Durban
- SA moratorium on mining prospecting applications
- Cosatu hits at 'elitist' BEE deals
- Survivor tells of ruthless killers
"She might have had her share of affairs but who does not move on into a new relationship when one bombs up?" - Sowetan's Gugu Sibiya on Karabo's clumsy exit from Generations.
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"Money is a big problem for us in the ANC." - The ANC's Fikile Mbalula on concerns over money affecting leadership contests.
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"In our experience people who try to think for themselves without the necessary training can easily be injured." - Fictitious ANC spokesman "Masspurge Xenge" describing on satire website www.hayibo.com new plans to set up a Free Will Tribunal.
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"If this is 'comradeship', I am no comrade" - Sowetan columnist and Sunday World editor Charles Mogale, commenting on an incident where young women who took up jobs vacated by people who had been fired for going on an illegal strike at the O.R. Tambo International Airport were ambushed on a train, stripped naked and had their clothes thrown out of the window.
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"Winners get the prom queens. You get nothing when you're a loser. All the best-looking women want winners." - Benni McCarthy says he is serious about losing weight, after being threatened with a fine by his club West Ham FC.
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"There is no proof that there were any marital problems... If there were any, her mother-in-law would have known about it" - Alleged husband-killer Mulalo Sivhidzo's defence lawyer.
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"I'm sorry from the bottom of my heart. The last thing I wanted was for my partner to get infected."
- Nadja Benaissa from German girl band No Angels confesses to having unprotected sex with at least three men after finding out she had the AIDS virus.
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"You constitute the link between the past represented by my generation, which is on its way out, and the future you have a task to define." Former president Thabo Mbeki resurfaces at a Black Management Forum summit for young professionals.
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"My son is hungry for a home-cooked meal. I'm planning a huge barbecue to celebrate." - Mom of US prisoner Gregory Taylor, who is being released after serving 13 years of a 25-year sentence for stealing from a church's food kitchen. He got a tough sentence because it was his third conviction.
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"If you talk of an envelope, we have not emptied it, we have broken it." - Public Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi
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"We told you, you are not going to get in through this shit." - A striking public servant stops people trying to enter Johannesburg’s Charlotte Maxeke Hospital.
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"We went to a hospital in Krugersdorp and we were not allowed in and now I'm here and still, they are not allowing us in. I'm carrying a person who is struggling to breathe." - Ambulance driver attempting to get into Johannesburg's Charlotte Maxeke Hospital.
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"Fiona was a close friend and loved by so many people. This is a huge loss for all of us." - Kee-Leen Irvine, close friend of actress and writer Fiona Coyne who died of an apparent suicide at the age of 45.
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"Two of the surfers ducked under a wave when a shark fin appeared close behind them... They used the next wave to paddle to shore." - National Sea Rescue Institute Craig Lambinon of the surfers' close shave at Plettenberg Bay.
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"President Zuma has given leadership, which has resulted in sound management of the economy and better use of national resources, with the economy destined for growth." - ANC spokesman Brian Sokutu's take on why President Jacob Zuma's approval rating increased in an opinion poll.
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"We believe the free passage of ideas is the lifeblood of both democracy and the economy." - Business Leadership SA chairman Bobby Godsell on the ANC's plans to discuss setting up a Media Appeals Tribunal.
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"To even suggest that the ANC and its government could have any similarities to the apartheid regime is not only preposterous, it is also disingenuous and an unbearable insult." - President Zuma reacts to comparisons to apartheid-era media censorship and the Freedom of Information Bill.
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"Skatties, if we in the former mighty monolith of National Party power failed to muzzle the mutts of message, how much more ridiculous will it be to try to do the same in this 21st century with its internet highways and byways? So my humble advice to the media is this: stop panicking. Victims never win." - Evita Bezuidenhout, alter ego of satirist Pieter Dirk Uys, writes on potential threats to media freedom in Business Day.
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"There is no doubt that clouds have been gathering over our country's mining reputation and I want to reassure all our stakeholders that South Africa is indeed a mining jurisdiction worthy of future investment." - Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu announcing a six-month moratorium on new prospecting applications while a full audit of all mineral rights granted since 2004 is conducted.
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"Totally disgusted." - The Congress of SA Trade Unions response to ArcelorMittal SA's empowerment deal in Kumba's Sishen mine to a company whose directors include Duduzane Zuma, son of President Jacob Zuma.
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"I stopped my truck and I went to see what was going on... that's when I started going down to the shaft and helping to pull out the bodies." - Stefanus Skinner who works near the Aurora Mine, where at least four people were shot dead in circumstances not yet tested by a court.
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"It is simple... if you go out there and steal gold, should I just go down on my knees and pray? It doesn't work like that. We have to protect our assets." - Aurora Empowerment Systems commercial director Thulani Ngubane on the death of four alleged illegal miners.
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"We did some hard talking. It was acknowledged by us all that fixing things has to come from within and that everyone has to play their part. We let ourselves down and there is a determination to show that we can bounce back." - Springbok rugby coach Peter de Villiers on the team's recent performance.
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"Vuvuzela" - Voted word of the 2010 Soccer World Cup by global linguists, and one of the newest words in the Oxford Dictionary of English.
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BraMpho
Very good initiative, keep up the good work, I love quotes they test your understanding of issues affecting our daily lives.Report Abuse
Gringo
"Money is a big problem for us in the ANC." - The ANC's Fikile Mbalula on concerns over money affecting leadership contests.Absurd......
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Gringo
"Money is a big problem for us in the ANC." - The ANC's Fikile Mbalula on concerns over money affecting leadership contests.Absurd......
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Julz
There is no proof that there were any marital problems... Mulalo trialReport Abuse
Julz
Also liked this one - 'My son is hungry for a home-cooked meal' (and he was a food thief!)Report Abuse