Quotes of the day

I thought I bought the house, but I’m puzzled now, as it seems that I have just entered a lease agreement with Council. – A Luderitz pensioner, Katrina Boois expressing her unhappiness with their sub-standard houses.

The society should be protected against drug dealers like the accused. – Magistrate Duard Kesslau during the sentencing of Thomas Alfred in the Windhoek Magistrate Court on Friday. Alfred was caught seven months ago with a bag of dagga in Windhoek. He was sentenced to four years in prison.

We have about 351 corpses being buried at this mass grave, and at the other end, there is another village called Zot, where there are about 36 corpses to be buried separately. – Nigeria’s Plateau State’s chairman of the search, recovery and evacuation committee, Solomon Zang, said at the graveside in the village of Dogo Hawa on Monday night. Almost 400 people were slaughtered when Muslim herdsmen raided Christian villages near Nigeria’s restive central town of Jos and have been buried in a mass grave.

Did I really earn this or did I just warn you all down? – Sandra Bullock when she received an Oscar for best actress for her role in ‘The Blind Side’.

From the history books
Too often, governments have operated in a vacuum, believing they could come up with some magic formula to which they have an exclusive patent. – Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell was born on March 10 1947. The nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada was the first and to date only female Prime Minister of that country.

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