09.03.10

Quotes of the day

 

This time we will not stop until we have achieved true justice. – The nine opposition parties that lost their court challenge of the results of the November 2009 elections in the Windhoek High Court on Thursday have vowed to appeal the matter in the Supreme Court.

Of the four commercial banks operating here, three banks have bosses who are seconded from South Africa and the message is clear to milk the cow, meaning us the Namibians, because it is our money. – Deputy Finance Minister Tjekero Tweya said in Parliament last week  while speaking on the Payment Systems Management Amendment Bill, which will give the Bank of Namibia the power to regulate the fees commercial banks charge customers.

Gunshots were fired just to scare people out of their houses only to be macheted as they fled into the bush. – Peter Gyang, a resident of Jos in Nigeria who lost his wife and two children, told reporters. Nampa – AFP March 8.

From the history books
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity. – John Lennon, member of the British super band, the Beatles. On this day in 1963 the Beatles began their first British tour.