Quotes

‘As a man, you need to discipline your wife...touch her a bit, tackle her and beat her to streamline her.’

– Ugandan MP Onesmus Twinamasiko responding to comments by President Yoweri Museveni that men who beat women are cowards and should face the full wrath of the law

 

‘Zuma took the oath of office and promised to be faithful to the republic and uphold the Constitution. We all know that he used the next nine years to consciously wreck the republic and smear the Constitution with cow dung from his Nkandla cattle culvert.’

– Analyst Mondli Makhanya

 

'If Bell Pottinger were still around, they would have slapped each other on the back. Job bloody well done, old chap. Because the cheap populist streak the ANC has lately been showing has its roots in the Zuma/Gupta axis's efforts, ably spearheaded by Bell Pottinger, to camouflage its capture of the state, corruption and abuse of power by diverting the national discourse towards "radical economic empowerment", "white monopoly capital", land expropriation without compensation and the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank. How ironic that it was three charlatan brothers from India who launched a campaign to stir up a new racial nationalism on the southern tip of Africa, and how ironic that they were so successful.’

– Max du Preez

 

‘Africa is so rich because we have got water, land, minerals, good weather. So, how does this (poverty) come about? It is because of nino (sleeping).'

– Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni

 

'I say it was a coup d'etat - some people have refused to call it a coup d'etat. We must undo this disgrace which we have imposed on ourselves, we don't deserve it... Zimbabwe doesn't deserve it.'

– Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on his ousting last year