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Quotes of the Week, 2 December 2010
A selection of quotes of southern African interest.
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"We are still making consultation with the minister, who is in Libya, to verify whether she uttered those words." -- Spokesman for International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Malusi Mogale, when asked by Business Day whether she had called Robert Mugabe a "crazy old man", according to documents released by Wikileaks.
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"Because he is so identifiable in South Africa, he has a strong argument that he'd be at risk should he return to the country." -- Immigration lawyer Russell Kaplan, on why his client, SA-born Brandon Huntley could manage to stay in Canada, after the country's immigration board first granted but then overturned a decision to grant him refugee status, after he claimed he was a crime victim because he was white.
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"I'm going back to jail... It feels like home to me. I'm going to visit my 'tjommie' [chum]." -- A friend of right-winger Willem Ratte, who was arrested for allegedly vandalising a Balmoral, Mpumalanga, concentration camp monument, quoted in Beeld.
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"The markers should bear in mind that African pupils were not writing in their mother tongue and spare a thought for those affected by the strike." -- SA Democratic Teachers' Union KwaZulu-Natal secretary Mbuyiseni Mathonsi calling on "biased marking" in favour of black matrics who wrote exams in a "foreign language", quoted in the Sowetan.
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Source : Sapa
A selection of quotes of southern African interest.
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"We are still making consultation with the minister, who is in Libya, to verify whether she uttered those words." -- Spokesman for International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Malusi Mogale, when asked by Business Day whether she had called Robert Mugabe a "crazy old man", according to documents released by Wikileaks.
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"Because he is so identifiable in South Africa, he has a strong argument that he'd be at risk should he return to the country." -- Immigration lawyer Russell Kaplan, on why his client, SA-born Brandon Huntley could manage to stay in Canada, after the country's immigration board first granted but then overturned a decision to grant him refugee status, after he claimed he was a crime victim because he was white.
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"I'm going back to jail... It feels like home to me. I'm going to visit my 'tjommie' [chum]." -- A friend of right-winger Willem Ratte, who was arrested for allegedly vandalising a Balmoral, Mpumalanga, concentration camp monument, quoted in Beeld.
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"The markers should bear in mind that African pupils were not writing in their mother tongue and spare a thought for those affected by the strike." -- SA Democratic Teachers' Union KwaZulu-Natal secretary Mbuyiseni Mathonsi calling on "biased marking" in favour of black matrics who wrote exams in a "foreign language", quoted in the Sowetan.
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Source : Sapa