Quotes of the Week
'It may be just a threat message and there will be appeals to the court and the decision of the court will change, but this is the new Egypt after the coup. This is the new dictatorship that (army chief and defence minister Field Marshal) Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is trying to establish.' - Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Abdullah el-Haddad on a court ruling that sentenced 529 supporters of former President Mohamed Morsi to death
'It's a national disaster, and we have to stand up and say that it cannot go on.' - Veteran conservationist Richard Leakey urging Kenya to take drastic action to stem the surge of elephant and rhino poaching 'You raped her. That's why you burned her pelvic area.' - Prosecutor Romay van Rooyan to Johannes Christiaan de Jager, accused of raping and killing Mpumalanga teenager Charmaine Mare 'Marches or jogging in the streets is prohibited if it is done en masse, but if someone wants to do sports individually, they can do that for sure.' - Bujumbura's mayoral spokesperson Candide Kazatsa confirming that jogging groups have been banned from Burundi's capital because opposition parties are using them as an excuse to organise 'uprisings' 'While Mr Serero was in prison his cell was searched, five cellphones and two hacks were found in his possession.' - Investigating officer Sifiso Xulu on Owen Serero, accused of trying to kill investigators in the case against Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir 'This has become a country where people are not just killed, they are tortured, mutilated, burned and dismembered... Children have been decapitated, and we know of at least four cases where the killers have eaten the flesh of their victims.' - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on the surge in violence in the Central African Republic 'You get maximum wounding from this type of ammunition.' - Ballistics expert Captain Chris Mangena testifying about the bullets that struck Reeva Steenkamp 'Whatever action South Africa took in the past few days, we were unemotional.' - South Africa's International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane on the expulsion of Rwandan diplomats from Pretoria 'It is common cause that in the name of security, government built for the president and his family in his private (home), a visitors' centre, cattle kraal and chicken run, swimming pool, and amphitheatre, among others... The president and his family clearly benefited from this.' - Public Protector Thuli Madonsela in her final report on President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home 'Impeachment is the correct course of action for this flagrant abuse of public money.' - DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko in reaction to Madonsela's Nkandla findings