Notable Quotes
I WANT justice to be done, tomorrow it will be someone else assaulted by the same officers. – Thomas Shetekela said as he mourns the death of his son, Mandela Ramakhutla who died after a week of fighting for his life in the Katutura State Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, after he was allegedly assaulted by three City Police officers.
A PUBLIC holiday should not excuse any doctor to do their job. – Dr Riaan van der Colf, who was the second witness at the disciplinary hearing of three nurses who are being charged with misconduct by the Health Professions Council of Namibia following the death of Juliana Kleopas (41) and her newborn baby in May last year at the Katutura State Hospital.
WE wish him a speedy recovery and trust that he will soon resume his noble duties in the transformative socio-economic agenda of our country. – South Africa’s governing African National Congress said after Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu checked into a South African hospital Wednesday for treatment of a persistent infection.
MONEY should never be a measurement for anything. – Founder of the pan-African multi-sector business conglomerate Mara Group Ashish Thakkarsaid as he plans to fly African flags in space.
THIS is definitely one of the most lethal influenza viruses that we have seen so far. – Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s assistant director-general for health, security and the environment told a news conference in Beijing Wednesday after deaths were reported in China’s bird flu outbreak.
from The History Books
WE have two lives. The one we learn with and the life we live after that. – Born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 26, 1914, Bernard Malamud was an American writer known for his novels and short stories of the Jewish-American life in the first half of the 20th century. Some of his more popular works include ‘The Natural’ and the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Fixer’. Malamud died on 18 March 1986, in New York City.
THE art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. – Ulysses S Grant was born 27 April 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the Civil War, he relentlessly pursued the enemy and in 1864 was entrusted with command of all US armies. In 1869, at age 46, he became the youngest president theretofore. Though Grant was highly scrupulous, his administration was tainted with scandal. He left the presidency to write his best-selling memoirs.
I DIDN’T say ‘former president,’ I said ‘president,’ and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution. – Saddam Hussein was born on 28 April 1937, in the village of Al-Awja in central Iraq. As a leading member of Iraq’s Ba’athist party, Hussein modernised Iraqi life using money obtained in the seizure of oil fields to provide free education, health care and improve Iraqi infrastructure. He combined this with a repressive security apparatus to seize control of Iraq, and was eventually overthrown by a US-led invasion when he was seen as a threat to U.S. interests in the region. He was hanged on 30 December 2006, at Camp Justice, an Iraqi base in Baghdad.