Notable Quotes

THIS will be the most expensive book made in Namibia – and all with taxpayers’ money. – An opposition MP commenting on a coffee table book on the new State House being budgeted at around N$1 million

FRANKLY, the NPA issue will be a permanent running sore on the body politic unless we go back to the beginning. Truth starts with a proper commission of inquiry into the arms deal. – Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, on the National Prosecuting Authority’s decision to drop charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma DESTROYING species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. – Holmes Rolston III (1932 – ) professor of philosophy at Colorado State UniversityIDEAS are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. – John Steinbeck (1902 – 1968) novelist and Nobel laureate THE fool speaks, the wise man listens. – African proverbFrom the history booksOPEN your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living. – Jamaican singer, composer and guitarist Bob Marley (1945 – 1981). He held his One Love Peace Concert, which brought Jamaica’s divided politicians together, on April 22 1978