Quotes

'The court was in essence directing a prosecution against accused persons against the wish of the prosecution, without a complainant and a prosecutor.’

– Kenyan judge Luka Kimaru. The High Court acquitted British aristocrat Jack Marrian of smuggling cocaine. The prosecution applied to scrap the case over a lack of evidence, but a magistrate in a lower court last month refused to drop the charges.
  

‘I have boarded the flight and will call you once I land.'

–Newly-wed Shikha Garg who died in the Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines plane crash sent this final text message to his wife. 

 

‘SA has made a clarion call to the international community to lift the unfair and unjustified sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe. We made this position clear at the World Economic Forum in Davos and recently at the European Union. We are pleased that the EU has lifted sanctions on some members of your government. We want more than just that, we want to see real support for Zimbabwe.'

 

– President Cyril Ramaphosa reiterating his calls for the lifting of sanctions against Zimbabwe. He was speaking at the opening of the third session of the bi-national commission between SA and Zimbabwe in Harare.