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“The country is a mess. It's been horribly run. The oil is just flowing at a very low level, much lower than even if it was badly run, it should have more income, more oil than what they're doing. So, we're going to have the big oil companies go in and they're going to fix the infrastructure and they're going to invest.”

“Seven years later, sad reflection. I haven't really done anything that's resulted in any good outcomes. And I guess that's something I do reflect on. It's like I wish I'd had more of a positive effect in this process.”

“I was watching Pinocchio. I mean, Ramaphosa's nose grow by the moment when he gave that speech last week.”

“I haven't seen or heard about anybody that says there's merit in the system. They are forced into the system. That's coercion.”

“[On mining] 'Mining is now a sunrise industry' with 40 trillion rand in reserves.”

“He's not accused of speeding, he's not accused of spousal abuse, he's not accused of fraud, but this man is charged with murder in a conspiracy to murder a government official. How what kind of military does this? What kind of civilian control? Where is oversight of the military? How in the world do you approve this man for a promotion?”

“The industry is owed 663 million rand in rebates that haven't been paid. Now that is a huge amount of money bearing in mind that most of these companies are relatively small. They're independent, they're privately owned and that is money that they've already spent and now they have to try and recoup it and many of the businesses have gone out under because they just haven't been able to survive the cash flow constraints.”

“It's a very unusual agreement. Firstly, it's incredibly short. There's very little in the agreement. Lots of talking about we agree that we all want to achieve wonderful objectives but very little in the agreement that tells me how any of that will be accomplished.”

“I think we need to assume that life and consciousness is extremely rare and it might only be us... we're effectively the way I view it is the image in my mind is of a tiny candle in a vast darkness tiny candle of consciousness that could easily go out.”

“The greatest gift that God gave me was a disability... when somebody tells me you can't do something, I get a smile on my face.”

“You've got the intelligence. You're like a Ferrari. That's why you're here because you've got the intelligence. But the problem with a Ferrari is that you also need to drive it with wisdom. Otherwise, it's just a very quick way to smash into a war.”

“Our system is almost like a virtual butler for service delivery. So it'll escalate your issues.”

“Your reputation. You work your whole life for your reputation and you can lose it in a second.”

“It's like your main aim is to constantly be better. Every year you need to reflect on how you went and then become a little better. And I'm finding the same works in business.”

“South Africa has not a lot at all of representation in the winter sports. So it was just a great opportunity to represent a country that doesn't have much representation in that and just so proud to represent South Africa.”

“The border is now 90% closed. 10,000 people a day were forcing through the US border under that useless Biden, and the border is closed.”

“China from their perspective would forfeit around 4 billion rands worth of import duties... and South Africa would forfeit around 4 million. So there's a thousandfold difference which is enormous.”

“With 22% of the vote, the DA stands as one of the best performing Liberal parties on the planet. Our growth in the context of a liberal retreat worldwide and the rise of fringe politics is an exception on the international stage.”

“The strong do what they want, the weak will suffer what they must.”

“If you have a problem, you're making a lot of money, you wanted to remove a problem, you call in the inkabi, the inkabi gets paid a few thousand rand and it just removes your problem.”