Notable Quotes
GOD only helps those who help themselves. How long will you remain kids? For you to come and just say you want jobs, that won’t work. Where are these jobs that you are talking about? Go look at what skill you would like to acquire through training and then come back to me. – Prime Minister Nahas Angula told the ‘struggle kids’ there were no jobs in the public service and if they want jobs they would have to acquire some training.
WITH so much water, you can envisage a much bigger scale for irrigation, you can take the stress off more industrial areas; it can make a major change. – Project manager and hydrologist Martin Quigner said that a vast underground water source has been discovered in northern Namibia that could provide a secure and sustainable water supply to about 40 per cent of the population for 400 years.
OUR client will remit a copy of this correspondence to the board of directors in London for their personal attention. We await your confirmation that this flouting of the laws of Namibia will not proceed. – Lawyer Richard Metcalf has accused Rossing Uranium Limited of administering “jungle justice” after the uranium giant allegedly dismissed its engineering services manager, Shambweka Henry Chikililwa, unprocedurally.
THE Police crime reports show that the majority of violent crimes such as murder, armed robberies, rape and violence against women and children, (and) assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm are either perpetrated by people under the influence of alcohol or intoxicating substances, or their victims were found to be intoxicated. – Police chief Sebastian Ndeitunga said that alcohol not only destroys Namibian homes but also contributes tremendously to the high rate of crime in the country.
THESE are just attempts to make a living. There are no other means through which I can generate income to buy food or even cosmetics with for myself and my kids. – Magdalena Sungu explained that the traditional herbal tea she collected from the mountains to sell was because of the poor rainfall in the Kunene Region this year she could not harvest from her maize field.
EXCEPT in this case the miscreants are not cowboys but Swapo politicians and their cronies with their ugly noses in the trough. – The secretary general of the CoD, Tsudao Gurirab, said the situation in Kavango, based on Ukwangali Traditional chief Sitentu Mpasi’s statements in court, indicates that things have deteriorating into Namibia’s version of the lawless ‘Wild West’.
From the History Books
But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing. – Akinwande Oluwole ‘Wole’ Soyinka (born July 13 1934) is a Nigerian writer, notable especially as a playwright and poet; he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African in Africa and the diaspora to be so honoured.
If you can’t play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it’s not a song. – Chris Cross (born Christopher Thomas Allen, July 14 1952, Tottenham, London, England), is the bass guitarist in the band Ultravox.
In a lot of films, they’re showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people. – Forest Whitaker (born July 15 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director. Whitaker won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland. Whitaker has also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.