Notable Quotes

HE shall be remembered for his dynamism, hard work, always encouraging others to deliver, deliver, deliver. – Minister of Health and Social Services, Richard Kamwi, on the late Minister of Education, Abraham Iyambo, who was laid to rest last Saturday.

MY name and my reputation is on the line. This is potentially a danger to the public and is of course illegal. The problem I have is that these people are impersonating me out there. It does no augur well for my professional reputation. Who knows? I might be called ‘Dr Abortion’ out there. – An aggrieved doctor, who prefers to remain anonymous, who has been targeted by a syndicate who have been using his old prescription forms to obtain the abortion-inducing drug, Cytotec, from pharmacies.

WE are very angry Namibians, we don’t like the way we are being treated as if we are not people enough. Some of us have been trading here since 1989 and suddenly we should move to a much smaller area and unsafe one for that matter. – Jackline Kasume, one of the informal traders who have been relocated from their usual spot of business in Windhoek’s Fidel Castro Street to the parking area next to Wecke & Voigts.

From the History Books
BLUSHING is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. – Charles Robert Darwin (February 12 1809 – April 19 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. He was best known for his book, ‘On the Origin of Species’, which was published in 1859.

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