Quotes

‘This is wrong. It’s got to do with the election. The President himself has been going flat out against the judiciary.’

– Wesley Mwafulirwa, a human rights lawyer in Malawi who is acting on behalf of Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda on leave ‘pending retirement’. The move followed weeks of growing tension between President Peter Mutharika and the judiciary.

‘There is a tendency to gloss over unsavoury aspects of people’s lives when they die; we do not speak ill of the dead. There is little chance of that happening with Nkurunziza, a man who presided over a poor nation for 15 years. He made life worse for his citizens, and achieved little of note.'

– Analyst Aanu Adeoye on the death of Burundi’s former President, Pierre Nkurunziza last week.

'(It is) absolutely problematic for me to see Africans who are doctors, who are professors but still thinking like white people. That’s the problem I have, if not just thinking like white people but being instruments of white people. That kills me.'

– Former President Jacob Zuma in an interview to mark tomorrow's Youth Day.