Notable Quotes

ON Robert Mugabe Avenue behind the Government Office Park the baby came. – Cazwill Pieters explains to The Namibian how his wife Hillary gave birth to their daughter in their car on the way to the hospital on Wednesday.

I WISH to stress that all cultures are equal and equally meaningful to their adherents. It does not augur well to regard one culture as superior to the other, nor do those cultures exist against each other. Cultures are complimentary.–  Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peya Mushelenga speaking at the 20th anniversary of the University of Namibia recently, cautioned against misplaced a perceptions among some people who consider their cultures and traditions as more superior than others.

WE ARE all special and there should be no discrimination on the basis of colour, sex and social standing in society. – Zambian First lady, Dr Christine Kaseba-Sata said at the opening of the fifth African Conference of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, which started in Windhoek this week.

HE IS a political novice, he has not been part of the old guard, he has not been in the bush fighting against Mengistu. – Exiled Ethiopian opposition leader Berhanu Nega told the BBC about newly appointed Ethiopian acting Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn who will be sworn in today.

THIS behaviour is despicable and must be condemned and rejected with the contempt. – Rally for Democracy and Progress  Secretary General, Jesaya Nyamu condemned last weeks’s postponement of the National Assembly (NA) because Swapo members of the NA were attending the policy conference.

ALL the nominees are cadres of the party, hence we should conduct ourselves in a manner that will promote unity and in the spirit of comradeship. – President Hifikepunye Pohamba called for Swapo members to remain united and not to repeat the succession race of 2004, which was resulted in allegations of backstabbing and other dirty tricks.

From The History Books
EVERY book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. – Stephen Edwin King (born September 21 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

NATURE can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer. – Charles Brenton Huggins (September 22 1901 – January 12 1997) was a Canadian-born American physician and physiologist and cancer researcher at the University of Chicago specialising in prostate cancer.

I DID it to myself. It wasn’t society... it wasn’t a pusher, it wasn’t being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. – Ray Charles  (September 23 1930 – June 10 2004), was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, and gospel.

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