A collection of this week’s quotes. Heart-eating and all

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11 Jul 2014, 4:00 am

"The reason for me to eat the unknown guy's heart was to show him that I am not a moffie [gay] and after I finished eating the heart, I realised he was dead." — Prosecutor Quawnita Geyer reading from a statement by Andrew Chimboza in his bail application in the Athlone Magistrate's Court. He is accused of killing a man and cutting his heart out.
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"I don't know what to make of it. I was surprised when I read this morning that he has been appointed." — Public Protector Thuli Madonsela reacting to the permanent appointment of controversial acting SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
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"The two are not together… I don't know how the two are related." –SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago claiming that making acting COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng a permanent appointment was unrelated to the Public Protector's report into him, which found his appointment was irregular.
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"You know when you are a journalist, you are a professional journalist. If you don't have ethics and principles and you mislead on your reporting, like lawyers… if you commit any mistake they take your licence." — SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng, who the Public Protector found lied about having obtained matric to the broadcaster, calling for licences for journalists.
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"The suffering that the animals endured does not compare to the financial loss that I suffered." — National Council of Provinces chairwoman Thandi Modise, in a statement, reacting to the horrific conditions animals on her farm Modderfontein, near Potchefstroom, North West, were allegedly found living in.
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"Arrived in Sri Lanka. It's hot. Doing some gov work, but here mainly to watch the Proteas give them a Klap!" — A tweet on the @CyrilRamaphosa Twitter account, which the presidency denied belonged to the deputy president. Ramaphosa is in Sri Lanka on an official state visit.
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"Sanral won't respond to a bureaucrat." — SA National Roads Agency Limited spokesman Vusi Mona, quoted in The Star, responding to Gauteng premier David Makhura's proposed review of e-tolling.
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"We wish to make it very clear that the material that has been aired was obtained illegally and in breach of the non-disclosure agreement with 'The Evidence Room'." — Brian Webber, one of murder accused Oscar Pistorius's lawyers, after a video of the paralympian re-enacting the events before and after Reeva Steenkamp's death were aired by an Australian TV channel.
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"Maybe it's time someone teaches Hofmeyr the words of the national anthem. They aren't that difficult." — Singer Koos Kombuis, commenting in Beeld on Steve Hofmeyr's rendition of "Die Stem" at an arts festival in Mbombela.
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"There is a funeral at my home. As black people, our culture is different from whites. In my culture when there is a death, we mourn the deceased." — The witness identified only as Mr X, testifying for the police at the Farlam Commission of Inquiry, asking for a break.
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"I have decided to leave party politics and return to working alongside my fellow citizens in civil society to pursue the dream of transforming ours into a more just and prosperous society." — Agang SA leader Mamphela Ramphele.