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 ‘My client (Alexis Bizos) believes that this intended private prosecution is vexatious and unfortunate and specifically designed to embarrass him and his family, being pursued by Afriforum and Monique van Oosterhout for their own vested interests, including an impending date in respect of their divorce where my client is the plaintiff in the high court.’

– Hanro Friedrich, attorney for Bizos junior. He said the private prosecution launched by civil rights group AfriForum, on behalf of Monique van Oosterhout – the wife of legal guru George Bizos’s son Alexis – is meant to cause embarrassment to the Bizos family.

'The independence of the judiciary is a red line.’

– A demonstrator at a courthouse in Ben Arous, Tunisia. Dozens of judges and lawyers on Thursday staged a work stoppage near the Tunisian capital over alleged pressure from police in a trial involving their colleagues

‘He is not the legitimate president; that's why we filed our papers.’

– Political activist Linda Masarira who is challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s legitimacy through South Africa’s Constitutional Court. Her Liberal Democrats party, which was formed in South Africa in 2015, argues that Mnangagwa rose to power through a coup

‘I have been evicted from seven houses. I have now moved quite far from where there are people who know me. I have to drive for three hours to work just because of my sexuality.’

– Kenyan John Mathenge who regularly puts up with physical and verbal abuse because he is gay

‘The Zupta cronies who plundered the South African state acted with a brazen indifference to the law. They cocked a snook because they were confident that they had immunity, at the highest levels, from prosecution. When that protective cloak fell away, with the victory of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa faction at the ANC’s electoral conference in December, so too did the Zuptas. Like cockroaches when the kitchen light is switched on, they scattered for cover.’

– Analyst William Saunderson-Meyer