Notable Quotes

There is a perception that the board is corrupt. – Finance Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has urged the Namibia Tender Board to tighten its grip on effective governance in order to improve the image of the institution and maintain public trust which seems to be eroding.

Why should I tell the doctor what to do if they knew already. – Bertha Mutikisha, the nurse implicated in the death of a mother and baby last year at the Windhoek Central Hospital has shifted the blame to the doctors on duty.

This morning his eyes were half open and I thought today would be the day I would talk to my son and that he would wake up... only to be told by the doctor that my son was gone (died). – Mandela Ramakhutla’s mother, Loreta Ramakhutla confirmed on Thursday that her son died after a week of fighting for his life in the Katutura State Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. He died after aleged police brutality.

From The History Books
We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable. – Hirohito was a Japanese Emperor born on 29 April 1901 in Tokyo, Japan. Installed as the Crown Prince at age 15, he reigned as Japan’s longest monarch from 1926-1989. During World War II, he led Japan’s military and the country’s surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. After the war, the new constitution drafted by the US changed Japan to a constitutional monarchy so that sovereignty lay with the people instead of the Emperor. Hirohito died on 7 January 1989 and his son Akihito succeeded him.

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