Day Quotes

Our party has been on record for many years that the current payment and salary structure of non-management cadres in the civil service is in an appalling state and urgent reform is needed to address the plight of the civil servants. – McHenry Venaani, DTA Secretary General.

Our party has been on record for many years that the current payment and salary structure of non-management cadres in the civil service is in an appalling state and urgent reform is needed to address the plight of the civil servants. – McHenry Venaani, DTA Secretary General. The DTA of Namibia has called for the National Assembly to resume early so possible salary increases for civil servants can be discussed.

We are very disappointed with the Ministry of Education that they still have not erected the tents and that they are not ready for our children – they know that the school year starts today. They are the ones that told us that it starts today so they should have been ready for our children yesterday already. – Angry parents have been complaining about the Ministry of Education neglecting to erect tents to accommodate Grade 1 and 2 learners for the first two weeks of school.

Whilst the number of Grade one learners continue to increase countrywide we remain concerned about the below 50 per cent pass rate for both Grades 10 and 12. This has become almost the annual outcome and ritual. – The Congress of Democrats’s Tsudao Gurirab has said in a media statement that the below 50 per cent pass rate for Grade 10s has become ‘a recipe for future unrest’.

An Israeli warship approached our cargo ship and warned it not to approach Gaza. We could see the lights at Gaza coast. We were forced to to change route toward an Egyptian port. – An Iranian ship loaded with medicine, food and clothing destined for Gaza was intercepted and forced to Egypt instead by the Israeli navy.

I really wanted to visit Gaza at this time to share their sufferings. – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate halt to the fighting in Gaza. He began a weeklong trip to the region in Egypt. He will however not be making a stop in Gaza because of the ongoing conflict there.

Luanda is still suffering from the aftermath of 27 years of war. It remains dangerous, is difficult to move around safely and it is hard to source goods of a reasonable standard there because of a damaged infrastructure. These factors, along with inflation, have driven up cost of living, making it increasingly expensive for expatriates. – Luanda has been named the most expensive place for foreigners by the ECA International, followed by Tokyo. Harare used to be considered the world’s most expensive city.

I know you have money. It’s a bank. – A man tried to rob a bank in Kentucky, only to find out it wasn’t a bank any more. He left with nothing after finding out what was former Farmers Bank is now an office that only takes payments for water bills.

It would certainly get the right demographic of young men in. I’m not sure how feasible it is, however. – An Australian navy submarine skipper, Commander Tom Phillips, who suggested female sailors wear bikinis to help reverse a recruitment crisis has been criticised by lawmakers but supported by superiors.

From the history books
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labours is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. – Samuel McChord Crothers (1857 – 1927). Crothers was an American Unitarian Universalist minister and a popular essayist.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. – Bertrand Russell (British author, mathematician and philosopher, 1872 – 1970)

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. – Orson Welles (US actor & director, 1915 – 1985)