Notable Quotes

OUR common aims should be the holding of credible, peaceful, free and fair elections. – President Hifikepunye Pohamba in his State of the Nation address in Parliament this week
 
 I HAVE a suspicion that there are more undecided voters just a week before this general election than there were during the previous three elections since 1994.

OUR common aims should be the holding of credible, peaceful, free and fair elections. – President Hifikepunye Pohamba in his State of the Nation address in Parliament this week

I HAVE a suspicion that there are more undecided voters just a week before this general election than there were during the previous three elections since 1994. – South African columnist Max du Preez on South Africa’s forthcoming elections on April 22
THE SABC is pathetic. There are some people who are trying to do good work, but many in the top hierarchy are spineless. – South African Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, quoted in The Times, on the broadcaster’s decision not to air a Special Assignment programme on political satire.
WE may later see this as a tipping point leading to a slippery slope to the erosion of the rule of law. – South African Constitutional law expert Wim Trengove SC on the National Prosecuting Authority’s decision to drop charges against Jacob Zuma, quoted in The Star.
I HELD a ceremony to thank my ancestors, but it got out of hand. The partying never stopped, until there was nothing left in my bank account. – Retired South African truck driver Aaron Maabe explaining to the Daily Sun how he blew his N$380 000 pension in three weeks.
I AM proud to be a black man. I understand what Nelson Mandela and others did for me, but I am tired of going to bed hungry. – Ongama Jama, quoted in Johannesburg’s The Star, on why he is supporting an opposition party.
IN this part of the world, fresh is where it’s at. Just kill it. Gut it. Skin it. Eat it. Heaven. – Celebrity British chef Jamie Oliver on Guguletu restaurant Mzoli’s Place, quoted in The Times.
AND I just want to say that it was a complete privilege listening to that. – ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ judge Amanada Holden after hearing the 47-year-old British church worker Susan Boyle’s performance in the competition that has got the whole world talking
TRUTH, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. – Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
IF you’re listening to the service on the radio, TV or Internet, you can do it from home too. People nowadays are not always in church. – Dean Matti Pikkarainen of Oulu Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland is going to raise the issue of donating money to churches by SMS at a nationwide church meeting next month

From the history books
POLITICIANS are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. – Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Premier from 1958 to 1964 was born on April 17 1894 and died in 1971
WHEN you add impediments to voting for no reason, it tends to discriminate against the poor and minorities. – US labour leader Ed Garvey was born on April 18 1940
WHAT a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. – George Gordon Byron, (Lord Byron) (1788 – 1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. He died of malaria at the age 36 while aiding Greek independence on April 19 1824