A selection of quotes of South African interest.
1. "To the hooligans who stole baby Jesus and a sheep, you are really not funny or clever at all! What pleasure do you get from trashing your own neighbourhood? Please do the right thing and return them." -- Helen Canon, whose nativity scene in Durban's Westville suburb was vandalised, according to the Daily News.
2. "We hope this discount will attract more customers. It's a good deal. Men can get punani [vagina] for just R10." -- a sex worker in Heidelberg, Johannesburg, complaining to the Daily Sun that most of her customers had gone home to their wives, forcing her to offer a 50 percent discount during the festive season.4.
3. "The two bundled a cow inside a privately owned ambulance oblivious of the fact that it was marked and easily identifiable." -- police spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi on two cousins who stole a cow and an ambulance in Mahwelereng, Limpopo.
5. "Jessica has turned into a murder weapon and it is its owner's fault." -- SanWild sanctuary owner Louise Joubert, to Beeld newspaper about the world famous "tame" hippo Jessica, who bit a man's hand this week.
6. "In this regard, we remain firm in our view that the disciplinary process was fair, just, open and transparent, and would stand any judicial scrutiny," -- ANC chief whip Stone Sizani after the Western Cape High Court's interim order lifting Parliament's sanctions against 20 suspended EFF MPs.
7. "I have never seen such a huge swarm of bees in my entire life and I want to believe that all the people who were there are alive by God's grace," church member Cecelia Chivi, to the Bulawayo-based Chronicle newspaper after mourners at a funeral in Zimbabwe had to abandon a coffin in a church and flee from a swarm of attacking bees that left more than 30 people injured.
8."The helicopter allegedly experienced mechanical failure and the pilot was then forced to land on the closest available space," ER24 spokesman Pieter Rossouw after a helicopter made a crash landing on the N12 highway in Benoni, east of Johannesburg, on Tuesday night.
Quotes of the week
A selection of quotes of South African interest.
1. "To the hooligans who stole baby Jesus and a sheep, you are really not funny or clever at all! What pleasure do you get from trashing your own neighbourhood? Please do the right thing and return them." -- Helen Canon, whose nativity scene in Durban's Westville suburb was vandalised, according to the Daily News.
2. "We hope this discount will attract more customers. It's a good deal. Men can get punani [vagina] for just R10." -- a sex worker in Heidelberg, Johannesburg, complaining to the Daily Sun that most of her customers had gone home to their wives, forcing her to offer a 50 percent discount during the festive season.4.
3. "The two bundled a cow inside a privately owned ambulance oblivious of the fact that it was marked and easily identifiable." -- police spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi on two cousins who stole a cow and an ambulance in Mahwelereng, Limpopo.
5. "Jessica has turned into a murder weapon and it is its owner's fault." -- SanWild sanctuary owner Louise Joubert, to Beeld newspaper about the world famous "tame" hippo Jessica, who bit a man's hand this week.
6. "In this regard, we remain firm in our view that the disciplinary process was fair, just, open and transparent, and would stand any judicial scrutiny," -- ANC chief whip Stone Sizani after the Western Cape High Court's interim order lifting Parliament's sanctions against 20 suspended EFF MPs.
7. "I have never seen such a huge swarm of bees in my entire life and I want to believe that all the people who were there are alive by God's grace," church member Cecelia Chivi, to the Bulawayo-based Chronicle newspaper after mourners at a funeral in Zimbabwe had to abandon a coffin in a church and flee from a swarm of attacking bees that left more than 30 people injured.
8."The helicopter allegedly experienced mechanical failure and the pilot was then forced to land on the closest available space," ER24 spokesman Pieter Rossouw after a helicopter made a crash landing on the N12 highway in Benoni, east of Johannesburg, on Tuesday night.
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