Sunday, and my usual weekly visit to the (Jo'burg) Sunday Times (in the bad old days, we called it the Sunday Crimes) to catch up with gossip from home. Surprisingly little about the recent World Summit (maybe South Africans are all summited out, and exhausted), apart from this assessment, which categorises Robert Mugabe as the star of the show, and describes the humiliation of Colin Powell.
What I do like from the paper this week is the current edition of Barry Ronge's column (always good value), which deserves wider circulation. He reviews a new book of quotations - I particularly enjoyed these two:
I cherish two Christopher Hampton contributions. He wrote: "If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say it is the process by which American girls turn into American women." About attitudes towards politics and religion, Hampton says, memorably: "I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth." I know I will find a use for that quote when we trundle into the hullaba-loo of our next South African election.
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