25.08.2010

Notable quotes

WE were sleeping. (It was) maybe around 23h00. Later, I heard something and when I woke up, I saw the car standing at my kid’s bed. – Elizabeth Ngwedha, said after a bakkie crashed into her shack in Otjomuise and instantly killed her daughter Elizabeth Ndapewa Nashuuta.

WE are suffering for the Chinese people. – A construction company owner summarised complaints varying slave wages, unfair labour practices, poor living conditions and allegations of physical beatings, to local companies losing tenders to the Chinese, during the Manwu conference on challenges facing those working in the construction industry.

HIV-AIDS can come because those who are carriers (of the virus) move from one place to another. – President Hifikepunye Pohamba speaking during the opening of the Epukiro-Eiseb-Gam gravel road.

FROM now onward we should be be united in our actions as council, and guided only by the good laws and regulations governing the activities of the local authorities, and by good faith. – CoD president Ben Ulenga urged party representatives in the Keetmanshoop Town Council to unite for the sake of socio-economic growth at the town.

From The History Books
I admit I’m being paid well, but it’s no more than I deserve. After all, I’ve been screwed more times than a hooker. – Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930), more commonly known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes.