Quotes

‘I have no further submissions to make to damage my case even further.’

– Hilton Epstein after being bloodied in the Supreme Court of Appeal, following his reiteration of the NPA’s 2009 argument that the prosecution of President Jacob Zuma was driven by political motives

'How does it nullify the entire case against Zuma?'

– Judge Mahomed Navsa

‘Zuma's surge to power was built on a fundamentally anti-intellectual platform. We're not the best-educated country to start with, so it was very easy to link Thabo Mbeki's alleged aloofness to his bookishness and addiction to long words. Thinkers, the Zuma camp told us, are robotic elitists who don't care about you and your problems. Once those prejudices were firmly in place, all Zuma had to do was roll into town, singing, dancing and unleashing his vast charisma; playing to perfection the role of a man of the people.’

– Analyst Tom Eaton 

'The set term of a president is embedded until a new one is sworn in as per the constitution. I want to assure every Kenyan and the world that every arm of government is in place and operational.’

– President Uhuru Kenyatta in his address at the opening of parliament which was boycotted by the opposition

‘The black majority is locked into a cycle of serving only as cheap labour that is super-exploited for the purposes of capital accumulation by a white minority.’

– ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa

‘We believe it is so important that this matter should not be left to politicians to decide, should not be left to her friends to grant her immunity. It should be left to the courts to determine the truth and to make sure that the true events of that evening are determined and that justice runs its course.’

– AfriForum spokesperson Willie Spies saying the organisation won’t be deterred in their case against the embattled Zimbabwe’s First Lady Grace Mugabe