Notable quotes
IT’S a simple one. The President is a simple man. – NCCI Chief Executive Officer Tarah Shaanika explained to The Namibian that the Mont Blanc pen the NCCI gave to President Hifikepunye Pohamba as a birthday gift was not one of the extremely expensive ones.
CCN came here to see how we are living and where they can help. – Golden Nendongo, spokesperson of the ‘struggle children’, told The Namibian after a CCN team visited the Berg Aukas camp last week.
ZIMBABWE is unjustly vilified by western countries. We took our land from the settlers and the British (colonisers) agreed. We took the land and the farmers disagreed. – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said during the closing event of the SADC summit.
THERE will be no big bang and all other SADC members states joining a customs union at the same time. – Finance Deputy Minister Calle Schlettwein told The Namibian in the wake of an envisaged custom union for the 15 members of SADC.
THEY always switch their lights off and gun for it, and until now it’s always has been very difficult catching them. – A source told The Namibian after farmers in the Karibib district managed to corner three poachers.
THE CEO said management should stop with their song of ‘there is no money’. – Albert Engelbrecht, alternate senior shop steward: central, told Natau members that TransNamib’s management had shot down most of its proposals during salary negotiations.
I can write, eat, ride a bicycle, play soccer, participate in athletics and do washing. – 20-year-old Hendrik Isaaks, who was born without arms.
FINALISATION of a mutually inclusive economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union is one of the most important priorities for SADC going forward. Trade negotiations with third parties should be underpinned by unity as a region and equal treatment of the parties. – New SADC chairperson, President Hifikepunye Pohamba, called on fellow member states to speed up the design and adoption of policies and fast-track the implementation of programmes and keeping timelines.
WE are looking at improving on what has already been achieved. The system and the resources and already there, we just need leadership and direction. We also need a little innovation in order to achieve the set goals. – NFA presidential candidate Ranga Haikali said during his ‘Vote for Change’ manifesto.
I enlisted in 1946 because I didn’t believe war existed. I wanted to see it with my own eyes. – Former fighter in Indochina, Colonel Pascal Moulopo (84) who became the first soldier to raise independent Gabon’s flag 50 years ago, told AFP.
From The History Books
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls. – Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (born August 20 1944) was the seventh Prime Minister of the Republic of India, serving from his mother’s death on October 31 1984 until his resignation on December 2 1989 following a general election defeat. He became the youngest Prime Minister of India when he took office at the age of 40.
There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. – Kenneth Donald Rogers, better known as Kenny Rogers (born August 21 1938) is an American country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.
Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead – but aim to do something big. – Deng Xiaoping (born August 22 1904) was a Chinese politician, statesman, theorist, and diplomat. As leader of the Communist Party of China, Deng was a reformer who led China towards a market economy. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (historically the highest position in Communist China), he nonetheless served as the paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 to the early 1990s.