Notable quotes

IT is very, very important. Because knowing you have HIV is bad enough. – Lead post-donation counsellor for the Blood Transfusion Service of Namibia, Augustinus Matyayi, who was recognised as a “hero” by the US government in the battle against the HIV epidemic this year.

WE asked them to drop us either at the Swapo offices at Oshakati or at the Oshakati Police Station, but they didn’t want to hear our request and just dumped us here in the village. – Thomas Johannes, spokesperson of the 60 children of the liberation struggle who have been expelled from the Ministry of Youth’s camp at Berg Aukas and dumped at flood relocation centres at Ekuku village north of Oshakati.

Namibia is threatened by offences relating to drugs. – Magistrate Sarel Jacobs said during sentencing Nigerian national Chukwujekwu Nwoye Okaforudejii to an effective prison term of eight years last Friday.

IF we don’t address child health today, we are trapping children in a cycle of ill health and poverty. It is extremely important to break this cycle early on. – Children’s Institute of the University of Cape Town commissioning editor Lori Lake stated in an annual review of the situation of children in South Africa.

From the history books
Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently. – Marlee Beth Matlin (born August 24 1965) is an American actress. Deaf since she was 18 months old, she is the youngest woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, which she won at the age of 21 for ‘Children of a Lesser God’.

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