Notable Quotes

We have to deal with the system. It is a structural apartheid system that still exists in our education system. It has denigrated the African child to the periphery. – Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Sidumo Dlamini said after Police struggled to control thousands of striking teachers’ union members at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday.

The problem of people not benefitting adequately from the resources and other government services will only be resolved with the establishment of a new region. – The Secretary of the Ondonga Traditional Authority, Joseph Asino, said as he dismissed an accusation that it is promoting tribalism with its proposal for the establishment of a new region, made up of constituencies primarily under the Ondonga king’s jurisdiction.

European policies are too focused on austerity which is no longer enough. – Enrico Letta who is set to become Italy’s new prime minister, after being asked by President Giorgio Napolitano to form a broad coalition government.

From The History Books
Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time. – Guglielmo Marconi (born 25 April 1874) was a Nobel Prize winning physicist and inventor, credited with the ground breaking work necessary for all future radio technology. Marconi received his first patent in England for a system of wireless telegraphy. In 1901, Marconi successfully sent wireless signals across the Atlantic Ocean, disproving the dominant belief of the Earth’s curvature affecting transmission.

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