Notable Quotes

EVERYONE expects law enforcers to abide by the law. – Swakopmund Regional Court Magistrate, Gaynor Poulton, finding Erongo Police Deputy Commissioner Andrew Iyambo guilty of fraud on Friday

I DEEPLY regret the pain that I have caused to my family, the ANC … and South Africans in general. – President Jacob Zuma, who has three wives, apologising after being criticised for having a love-child in an exxtra-marital affair

… OUR Congress singled out what we called “Kebble-ism” – namely, a dangerous axis between unscrupulous business people (black and white) on the one hand, and a bullying, chauvinistic populist tendency in parts of our movement on the other. Behind the headline stories of high-life parties and the flaunting of ill-gained wealth, lies the sordid reality of manipulative sponsorships, wheeling and dealing, organisational factionalism, arm-twisting and the general subversion of our democratic order. – South African Communist Party statement issued after the first meeting of its Political Bureau for 2010

I DON’T have a dress yet, no, and Chelsea doesn’t either. But we’re working on it. – United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying planning a wedding was almost as tough as the Middle East peace talks

VOTE: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. – Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914), American writer, journalist and editor

From the history books
THE future starts today, not tomorrow. – Pope John Paul II. On February 9, 2003, weeks before United States-led forces invaded Iraq, Pope John Paul made an appeal for world prayer to avert war and later sent a top cardinal on a peace mission to Baghdad