A selection of quotes of Southern African interest.
“We had an argument. At one stage, I went to the kitchen, had a sip of beer and went back to argue. I did name her the k-word .” — Andre van Deventer testifying in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court. He is charged with crimen injuria for allegedly insulting domestic worker Gloria Kente.
“In the region we have held many free and fair elections. A number of members of this community... have been through elections and they by and large have been declared free and fair.” — Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is mediating for a solution to the crisis in Lesotho, after that country’s elections were scheduled for 2015.
“People get paid while they are at home playing golf.” — The Public Service Commission’s Michael Seloane on Gauteng government departments’ failure to act against employees guilty of financial mismanagement.
“You cannot be making so much money from Nigeria and then turn around and embarrass the people.” — An official in the office of Nigeria’s National Security Advisor, quoted by Agence France-Presse, after South African customs officials at Lanseria Airport confiscated US9.3-million in cash apparently intended to buy weapons.
“We all talk colloquially about cable theft, in fact the infrastructure that is affected goes far beyond cables. So I would rather talk about the theft of public infrastructure of a metallic nature.” — Deputy Co-operative Governance Minister Andries Nel speaking at the Association of Municipal Electricity Utilities conference.
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