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A selection of quotes of southern African interest. Quotes of the Week - 18 November 2010.
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"Chief, we don't want to entertain or dignify anything not directly related to our political work as an ANC Youth League." -- League spokesman Floyd Shivambu when asked by The Citizen if its leader Julius Malema would accept an invitation to participate in this year's Dusi Canoe Marathon.
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"I'm reminded of a comment made by Plato in a book called The Republic. He said the worst thing anybody can do is to express a very strong opinion on something you know very little about." -- Government spokesman Themba Maseko on the ANCYL in the Northern Cape, after it attacked national director of public prosecutions Menzi Simelane for his decision to prosecute ANC Northern Cape chairman John Block for fraud.
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"It was a scary experience. They beat me and threatened us with guns. I refused to leave the yacht and I was prepared to sink with the pirates." -- Skipper Peter Eldridge speaking to reporters after he was attacked by Somali pirates, who kidnapped Durban couple, Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz, from his yacht in the Indian ocean.
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"They said we were from Britain because we were white. This was despite the fact that we showed them our passports." -- Eldridge.
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"It is not good for Gugulethu to have this happen. This is evil. Please tell the British people we are not all bad here." -- Gugulethu, Cape Town resident Nomuula Ndala, quoted in The Times, after honeymooners Shrien and Anni Dewani were hijacked, and Anni killed.
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"What the 'frikkadel' [meat ball] were they doing in a township? If I go to another country I wouldn't go into their slums and expect to be safe. Now the whole of Cape Town gets a bad rep." -- Carina on news24.com.
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"We are out here in a warzone and we don't know how to deal with it... It was their second visit to South Africa and they made it clear they will not be coming back." -- Halstead Farm B&B owner in Addo, Eastern Cape, who asked not to be named, after a German couple was robbed at knifepoint in her establishment.
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"I wondered what to do, so I shouted for my mom." -- Teenager Nel-Marie Els talking to Beeld about the moments after she was bitten by a spitting cobra.
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Source : Sapa
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"Chief, we don't want to entertain or dignify anything not directly related to our political work as an ANC Youth League." -- League spokesman Floyd Shivambu when asked by The Citizen if its leader Julius Malema would accept an invitation to participate in this year's Dusi Canoe Marathon.
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"I'm reminded of a comment made by Plato in a book called The Republic. He said the worst thing anybody can do is to express a very strong opinion on something you know very little about." -- Government spokesman Themba Maseko on the ANCYL in the Northern Cape, after it attacked national director of public prosecutions Menzi Simelane for his decision to prosecute ANC Northern Cape chairman John Block for fraud.
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"It was a scary experience. They beat me and threatened us with guns. I refused to leave the yacht and I was prepared to sink with the pirates." -- Skipper Peter Eldridge speaking to reporters after he was attacked by Somali pirates, who kidnapped Durban couple, Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz, from his yacht in the Indian ocean.
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"They said we were from Britain because we were white. This was despite the fact that we showed them our passports." -- Eldridge.
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"It is not good for Gugulethu to have this happen. This is evil. Please tell the British people we are not all bad here." -- Gugulethu, Cape Town resident Nomuula Ndala, quoted in The Times, after honeymooners Shrien and Anni Dewani were hijacked, and Anni killed.
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"What the 'frikkadel' [meat ball] were they doing in a township? If I go to another country I wouldn't go into their slums and expect to be safe. Now the whole of Cape Town gets a bad rep." -- Carina on news24.com.
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"We are out here in a warzone and we don't know how to deal with it... It was their second visit to South Africa and they made it clear they will not be coming back." -- Halstead Farm B&B owner in Addo, Eastern Cape, who asked not to be named, after a German couple was robbed at knifepoint in her establishment.
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"I wondered what to do, so I shouted for my mom." -- Teenager Nel-Marie Els talking to Beeld about the moments after she was bitten by a spitting cobra.
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Source : Sapa
