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IT is our opinion that he cannot be president of a workers federation. – Nafinu general secretary Asnath Zamuee, said that NUNW presidency candidate, David Namalenga, who is the Human Resource Manager at the Road Contractor Company was an employer representative and not the workers.
Meme, meme, skryf, skryf. tjanga, tjanga. – One of the women suing Government based on claims that their child-bearing years were cut short without their informed consent, testified in the High Court that while experiencing intense labour pains a Katutura Hospital nurse came to her and urged her to sign without explaining to her what was on the paper she was asked to sign.
THE loans only help the operators with their operations cost, but many are still struggling to meet their debt obligations. It’s like keeping the wolf away from the sheep for just another year. – Sea Flower fishing company CEO Ronny Coppin, commenting on on the credit line of millions given to small-scale lobster operators by the Development Bank of Namibia last year to rescue the industry.
ISSUES like that are internal matters. If it is something that borders on criminality, it is the duty of the police and it is handled by them on that level. – Standard Bank Namibia head of marketing, Taddius Maswahu said. He was not prepared to shed light on allegations that the bank’s former Rundu manager Henry Kisting allegedly transferred between N$3 million and N$5 million into foreign bank accounts before he packed up and disappeared.
I am now on pension. I have done my work faithfully and served the Swakopmund municipality diligently. Everything I did was to the advantage of the council and of the rate payers. I did my job 100 per cent. – Former Swakopmund traffic chief Fanie Kruger, said that he is still concerned about certain serious allegations made against him and for which the local council still has to answer.
This moment of opportunity may not soon come again. They cannot afford to let it slip away. – US President Barack Obama said after a day of personal diplomacy with Israeli and the Palestinian leaders shadowed by scepticism on all sides and fresh violence in the volatile West Bank.
I have several bombs strapped to my body ready to go off. I have a device that if I drop it, if I drop it, it will ... explode. – James J Lee who railed against the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming for years burst into the company’s headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body on Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot and killed him.
From the history books
I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die. – Jesse Woodson James (September 5 1847 – April 3 1882) was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures. – Geronimo was a prominent Native American leader and medicine man of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States and their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars.
As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? – Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He played Chris Taylor in the 1986 Vietnam War drama ‘Platoon’, Jake Kesey in the 1986 film ‘The Wraith’, and Bud Fox in 1987 film ‘Wall Street’. Sheen is known for his roles on two sitcoms: as Charlie Crawford on ‘Spin City’, and as Charlie Harper on ‘Two and a Half Men’.
