Quotes

'The horrific violence in Palma and elsewhere in northern Mozambique has led to a humanitarian crisis. The Norwegian Refugee Council has done assessments, can deploy relief and experts and is ready to scale up help, but we are waiting for visas.'

–  Jan Engeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council

 

‘Is France complicit in the genocide of the Tutsis? If this means a willingness to be associated with the genocidal enterprise, nothing in the archives consulted proves it.’

– The findings of an official commission set up by President Emmanuel Macron into the Rwandan genocide. The report, released on Friday, confirmed that France did not do enough to halt the killings. Furthermore, it found that ‘for a long time’ France was involved with a regime ‘that encouraged racist massacres’. 

 

‘We have in South Africa today the gradual entrenchment of the counter-majoritarian problem. Unfortunately, when people rise up against this judicial corruption, our young democracy will unravel and many democratic gains will be lost in the ashes that will be left of what used to be our democratic state,’ he said ominously. Many who profess to be acting in the interests of democracy will leave for their wealth destinations abroad as many of them hold dual citizenship. The stooges of these so-called defenders of democracy will be left with us battling to rebuild our country again.’

– Former President Jacob Zuma who lambasted last week’s Constitutional Court hearing on the State Capture Commission’s application for him to be jailed for showing contempt of an order of the apex court and for refusing to testify before the commission

 

‘Our constitutional system provides an answer to what has transpired, even though it is unprecedented. His status as former President does not protect him from the law.’

– Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC, arguing that while Zuma had spoken of an imminent judicial crisis, there was none

 

'The legal process to achieve justice for him has been indeterminable.'

– Lord Nicholas Monson after a court ruled that four Kenyan police officers accused of murdering his son will face trial. Alexander Monson was arrested at a Kenyan beach resort in May 2012 and died a day later in hospital having suffered a head injury. Despite a post mortem concluding that he died after suffering a blow to the head, the Kenyan police insisted he died from a drug overdose.