Notable Quotes

WE welcome Mr Gabriel’s withdrawal of the lawsuit against The Namibian. Lawsuits by their nature benefit neither party properly. They are costly and take a lot of time to prepare for and to conclude. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent on this one over the past several years. Yet both parties will go away feeling they have lost rather than gained anything. – Tangeni Amupadhi, the editor of The Namibian, on business owner Petrus Gabriel withdrawing his lawsuit for alleged defamation against the newspaper.

LIVES of many gay people in the North and in informal settlements are at stake. You are thinking of yourself only. What about others? You put many lives at stake, even my life. – Gerald Randy, an activist with Outright Namibia (ORN), to Wendelinus Hamtenya, who claimed that he had a list of gay men, which apparently included some prominent Namibians.

I DO not know anything. I’m not guilty, because I do not know anything. – John Matheus Frans Tjappa, the only person to be prosecuted in connection with an armed robbery with a gang staged at a supermarket in Windhoek in October 2008.

From the History Books
NO medicine cures what happiness cannot. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (born March 6 1927) is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt Internation Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his novel ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’, which was later adapted into a film.

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