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“The number that worries me today is 5% or to be exact 4.9% and we're all going to take a collective tear and a sigh of sadness.”

“If South Africa were a person, she'd be knee high in credit card debt and very expensive debt.”

“We're stagnating, but we keep deluding ourselves that we're moving forward. And I think that's a very dangerous place to be because it's a place of complacency while you're in a crisis.”

“They were given military uniforms, they were given military IDs, they were meant to sign contracts which we understand were written in Russian. And three weeks after their arrival they were then sent to fight deployed with the Russian forces.”

“If I had 100 million rand, I would take 1,000 young people in one specific area, train them in law enforcement—a 12-week training program studying law enforcement, basically a certificate in law enforcement—to understand all the laws and bylaws, and then work on their minds and mindset. What is South Africa? What do we have to lose? Why should we save this place?”

“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.”

“Over the last 3 years the contribution of Meetings Africa to the South African economy has actually doubled. 3 years ago Meetings Africa contributed about 375 million. Last year Meetings Africa contributed about 619 million.”

“These guys are absolute athletes.”

“We've seen a big impact from the people at Deepsloot even from our customers reactions to say that now at least they can live to survive another day. It has helped a lot of people.”

“We are truly grateful on behalf of the people of KwaZulu-Natal, families and communities that were affected by this unethical behavior of those that are responsible for this irresponsible action.”

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

“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.”

“They want a martyr. They want somebody so that they could make this thing... They're banking on that. And that's why [protesters] are out in front night after night after night. It's designed specifically... The longer we're here and the less the local PD involves itself, the more chance of incident between federal officers and us.”

“The majority of people that implemented and kept apartheid alive politically are either dead or basically holding on for dear life.”

“I'm a firm believer in freedom of speech like I go you sing what you want but my issue is that it needs to be crossboard”

“31 years of good intentions does not magically stop race laws being racist”

“It's like we've moved into this digital age of friendship... you don't like you you in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s you were stuck pretty much your friends were people that you went to school with and people in your city and now it's changed.”

“The issue is like the administration of it... you've got a lot of grunt grunts doing the work, but certain people make all the difference.”