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Johann Maree |
"It logically grew out of my desire for change. But I've moved towards a more independent, non-partisan position. I tell Helen my vote is secret, and I don't tell her how I voted. I use my discrimination at the time and I approach voting as an academic and an intellectual." Mayoral husband of Helen Zille, Johann Maree, who was a member of the ANC at the time of the elections in 1994. |
Johann Maree |
"It's important to display love, care and compassion for people, for the poor and disempowered. It's important to not only believe, but to do, to show social concern, and that must be for family and friends as well." |
Johann Maree |
"I know what they mean, and just say 'yes'," Mayoral husband of Helen Zille, Johann Maree, on when he is called "Mr Zille". |
Helen Zille |
"This is a city whose people tasted non-racialism long before the rest of South Africa. As early as the 19th century, black and coloured people had the vote in the Cape...About 25% or 450,000 of Cape Town's economically active adult population are unemployed, and over 60% of our city's adult population do not have a matric." Helen Zille, Mayor of Cape Town |
Kevin Allan And Karen Heese |
"In the last year the ANC was in power in Cape Town (2004-05), the city was able to spend only 63% of its capital budget and the council was afflicted by a number of tender and contract scandals." Kevin Allan And Karen Heese writing for Business Day |
William Saunderson-Meyer |
"There have been some hopeless political appointments to the Bench, especially that of Judge-President John Hlophe, who is clearly unsuited to office, but hangs in gamely because many of his colleagues are afraid of the consequences of being seen to oppose him." William Saunderson-Meyer writing for the Weekend Argus |
Adam Alexander |
"Poor folks? Ah, yes. Here in Cape Town, they’re everywhere, too--like the modelling agencies. Thousands of them. Millions of them. People who live in houses your dog would refuse to go in. Tin, makeshift, one-room sweatboxes in summer, fridges in winter. A sea of struggling, destitute, dog-eat-dog humanity that runs for miles alongside the road from the airport to town, making it the first thing any tourist sees who comes to Cape Town." |
Adam Alexander |
"Just ask Leonardo DiCaprio. Having recently finished filming "The Blood Diamond" in Africa, he couldn't stay away from here [Cape Town]. During filming, he reportedly took his R&R regularly in Cape Town, going out "on the pull" in nothing less than a minibus. Known affectionately here as Leo’s "Bang Bus," this vehicle was convenient for returning to his room at the prestigious Mount Nelson Hotel (where he'd leave a do not disturb sign on his door that read "Let sleeping wolves lie") with as many as three long-legged lovelies in tow." |
Adam Alexander |
"Cape Town – like New Orleans, like Madrid, like Dublin – is one of those places where hedonism is considered more a celebrated way of life than a dangerously amoral condition. But few cities in the world have as gigantic and glaring a gulf between rich and poor as Cape Town, or are nearly as violent – only Rio de Janeiro, perhaps. Or as sexy. There are so many modelling agencies in Cape Town that some of the streets are like cat-walks." |
1811 |
"I have just recollected that I have some of the finest old Constantia wine in the house that ever was tasted," says Mrs Jennings. "My poor husband! how fond he was of it!" Jane Austen in Sense and Sensibility. |
4 October 2006 |
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22 August 2006 |
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