Quotes

‘No force can disrupt the efforts underway to fill the dam and the process in line with the filling and operation of the project.’

– Ethiopia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, saying the country will begin a trial run for power generation at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam during the upcoming rainy season, as it prepares for the second filling of the reservoir

‘I want to see a fair trial myself. Why do you think being fair belongs to Europe or US or to anybody – not to us?' 

– Rwanda's President Paul Kagame says he wants to see a fair trial for Paul Rusesabagina, the man portrayed as a hero in a 2004 Hollywood movie about the Rwandan genocide. 

‘As South Africa's highest court inexplicably delays in pronouncing on Zuma's defiance of its judgment that he must appear before the State Capture Inquiry and answer non-incriminating questions, the former President has made one thing very clear: he has respect for the courts – but only the ones who rule in his favour.’

– Analyst Karyn Maughan on former President Jacob Zuma

‘We have a serious situation of a judiciary that has been captured by foreign forces in this country. The time has come to expose all these malcontents and economic saboteurs who are not sleeping until they bring down the second republic. We are now going to poke the enemy in the eye and confront it.’

– Zimbabwe’s Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi who has promised to expose what he called the capture of the judiciary by Western countries