'Nowhere in the world is there

‘I’m neither sad nor disappointed. Politically, everything flew in this direction and paved the way for the normality of this moment.’

– Tarek el-Khatib on the release of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. His brother, Mustafa, was killed in the struggle to topple Mubarak.

 

 

'Nowhere in the world is there a population quite so privileged as white South Africa. We came, we saw, we conquered and we lived like kings. And we remain deeply racist, pretty much all of us.'

– Analyst Peter Bruce addressing the outcry cause by Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s tweet on colonialism