Notable Quotes

If I have to give up my seat as Member of Parliament for this process, I will do so. – Henk Mudge, Republican Party (RP) president said after his party signed a memorandum of understanding to start the expected process of merging with the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP). The two parties will run a joint secretarial office at Parliament for this process.

 

Our complaints and demands are well-documented and are all in our possession to this day, but none of them indicate or reflect any sinister intent or diabolic inclination towards shedding the blood and taking the life of a Swapo leader – Hizipo Shikondombolo and a group of former PLAN members who were jailed by Swapo in Zambia in 1976 because of their alleged association with the Shipanga rebellion have demanded that Swapo stops tarnishing their names.

 

I attended a function [25th anniversary of The Namibian] over the weekend where a dear friend of mine [Speaker Theo-Ben Gurirab] called for the unbanning on The Namibian, but since he was a member of Cabinet then, he agreed to it. Yes, he agreed although he did not know why, as was a general procedure of the Swapo government. – Hidipo Hamutenya, president of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) said that the government advertising and purchasing ban on The Namibian, imposed ten years ago by former president Sam Nujoma, will in all likelihood not be lifted, as President Hifikepunye Pohamba “will not have the courage to do so.”

 

From The History Books

There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there. – Harland David Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders (born September 9 1890) was an American entrepreneur who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). His image is omnipresent in the chain’s advertising and packaging, and his name is sometimes used as a synonym for the KFC product or restaurant itself.

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