“There is no dispute: Jacob Zuma has ripped the society and state to shreds. He swore at his inauguration to be faithful to our country and that he would observe, uphold and maintain our beautiful Constitution. It was all bullshit.”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
“Whether you have to get to the top of the Kremlin or clamber up Jacob Zuma's slithery and gangrenous pole, politics is a messy business.”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
“Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will be imposed.”
Source: The Case for Classical Christian Education
“It is much quicker to fly from Johannesburg to Lagos than from Moscow to Vladivostok. I couldn't help thinking: can you imagine Jacob Zuma also ruling Nigeria, 4,600 kilometres to the north-west? The chaos and madness!”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
“I want to write a book again,” I said to Sam on a blazingly hot afternoon on the veranda of the Red Tin Roof.”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
“I can basically go to prison or at least be prosecuted for what I have revealed to you about the PAN programme investigation. The SSA will argue that I have jeopardised national security and endangered the lives of agents. This is, of course, nonsense. I have not revealed any state secrets and have not endangered any operations that are genuinely in the interest of national security.”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
“The campaign against the SARS “rogue unit” was driven by elements in the SSA ... Suffice it to say for now that the stories in the Sunday Times were bullshit, but they were integral to the destruction of the most effective law enforcement organisation in the country.”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
“A pattern of appointing cronies and loyalists in key positions emerged at the outset of Zuma's presidency. He was mindful that he could still be brought to book for corruption in the future, and set in motion a shadow security state that would undermine the independence of the police and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
“Can you imagine charging one of the most powerful people in the country with treason and those around him with fraud and corruption?”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
“We have become world leaders in income inequality, racial tension, rape and illicit financial outflows.”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison