Notable Quotes
I have a problem with our Government’s lack of support. We are running to the Chinese people, because they have the support from their government and we are ignoring our own people. – A participant said at a two-day conference in Windhoek which focuses on the challenges facing workers in the Namibian construction industry.
I told him I don’t like those things. – Ephraim Kariko, who is accused of clubbing former coastal newspaper editor Awie Brand to death, told Judge Alfred Siboleka that Brand was killed after sexual advances that he made towards Kariko ended in a violent scuffle between the two men.
MATJILA must forget about Ehafo. We do not want his colonialism anymore. Ehafo belongs to Ehafo workers. – Chairperson of the Ehafo Workers Committee, Marius Nuuyoma, urged Ehafo Board of Trustees Chairperson, Andrew Matjila, should sign the Deed of Transfer so that the ministry of Education becomes the owner of Ehafo properties.
HE stabbed him with a knife in the neck, basically slitting his throat. – Acting Omaheke Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner Petrus Swartz, explained how Gobabis resident Paul Gamseb lost his life.
ANY person can buy a filter and bottle so-called mineral water. There are currently few controls and no labelling laws. – Yanna Erasmus, General Manager of local promotion group ‘Team Namibia’ made a crucial point when she noted that the self-regulated bottling environment in Namibia provides opportunities to mislead the public.
ALTHOUGH there is some element of risk to further downward movement in repo, our updated core view is that repo will only move upwards in June 2011. – FNB Namibia’s economists Daniel Motinga said that he expects the Bank of Namibia to continue its neutral rate stance by maintaining a repo rate of 7,0 per cent.
THE possibility to play India would be interesting. – Brave Warriors coach Tom Saintfiet, enthused about the invitation the NFA received from the Indian Football Association to play them in September.
WE want investors. – Zimbabwe Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi said that Zimbabwe now was focussed on recovery.
THEY rained gunfire on everybody. Nobody stood a chance. I was lucky because they aimed at me but I jumped out of the window and survived. – Hotel employee, Adan Mohammed, told AFP after two extremist insurgents disguised as government soldiers went on a shooting rampage in a Mogadishu hotel in Somali killing 30 people, including six MPs, before blowing themselves up.
From The History Books
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (born August 27 1770) was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.
I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. – Roger Tory Peterson (August 28 1908), was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. – Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29 1958) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records.