Quotes

'We will not allow land grabs or anarchy. I am saying we will handle this challenge. Once we addressed and resolved the land question, the country will take off. I have full confidence that if we could negotiate the death of apartheid, we will be able to find a solution that will put the land issue to bed so that this country can really unleash its power.'

– South African President Cyril Ramaphosa

'At such a crucial time in the history of the new Zimbabwe, nothing is more important than unity, peace and dialogue. I call on all parties to immediately cease from all forms of incitement to violence.'

– Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa

‘We note that the African Union had an electoral observer mission to Zimbabwe that endorsed the process as being free and fair. The SADC electoral observer mission has also endorsed the elections as being free and fair. We further note that Western observers have deemed the elections to be controversial. Western nations must be alive to the fact that Zimbabwe is not a perfect democracy with perfect conditions.'

– Ugeshnee Naicker, spokesperson for the National Association of Democratic Lawyers, saying the violence should not detract from the success of the elections that has been broadly described by many observers as being free and fair 

'If you know anything about the whereabouts of this child, please, please, I am appealing to you for your own sake and the sake of those affected to tell the authorities.'

– Durban Magistrate Mohamed Motala begging an accused to reveal any information about the whereabouts of nine-year-old Miguel Louw who went missing in Johannesburg on 17 July