Notable Quotes

THIS is the first time that the percentage of unemployed university graduates has reached such a significant number. – Herbert Jauch, independent labour expert, said Namibia aren’t just without jobs because they lack skills as he was referring to the country’s huge crisis of mass unemployment. About 10 per cent of university graduates share this predicament.

THIS is the first time that the percentage of unemployed university graduates has reached such a significant number. – Herbert Jauch, independent labour expert, said Namibia aren’t just without jobs because they lack skills as he was referring to the country’s huge crisis of mass unemployment. About 10 per cent of university graduates share this predicament.

I AM appealing to the powers that be that from an economic viewpoint, let us legalise prostitution as it generates jobs and income. – Youth Sports and Culture Minister Kazenambo Kazenambo said that prostitution or sex work is practised in Namibia and it is a reality. Local and Regional Government Minister Jerry Ekandjo said that young people involved in prostitution should rather be encouraged to sell grass and tree pods.

WE do not want to see a situation where people from other regions are ferried to the South to benefit from the project. – Acting Bondelswarts Chief Josef Christian stressed that the region’s inhabitants must get optimal benefits in terms of potential jobs and shares allocations when Desert Star Studios set up the envisaged US$120 million film and tourism facilities at the farm Komsberg along the Orange River.

IT was adopted by this house in 2006 – four years ago – and I believe that was enough time for the two governments of Namibia and Germany to have done something to give effect to it. – Herero Chief Kuaima Riruako plans to ask Foreign Affairs Minister Utoni Nujoma what practical steps the Government has taken to give effect to the motion on the genocide against the Namibian people during 1904 – 1908.

WE don’t want the water. We don’t want electricity. We have water at the fountains.We want to live naturally. – Muhapikwa Muniombara says that if a dam is built at Epupa Falls in the Kunene Region ‘they will kill us.’ Ovahimba people are opposing the planned construction of a hydropower plant.
Walmart was notoriously anti-union and an affront to workers’ rights wherever it operated. – The Western Cape branch of the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (COSATU) is opposed to retailer Walmart’s presence in South Africa. The global retail giant, however, vowed to respect the country’s labour legislation.

From The History Books
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree. – Richard St John Harris (born October 1 1930) was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer. He appeared on stage and in many films, and is perhaps best known for his roles as King Arthur in ‘Camelot’ (1967), as Oliver Cromwell in ‘Cromwell’ (1970) and as Albus Dumbledore in ‘Harry Potter and the Philosophers’s Stone’ (2001) and ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ (2002), his final film.

I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should. – Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born October 2 1951), better known by his professional name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, activist, actor and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist of the rock band The Police. As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, and receiving an Oscar nomination for best song. He is a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

I got it: stay away from cocaine and heroin. – Thomas Lee Bass (aka Tommy Lee) (born October 3 1962) is an American musician, and founding member of glam metal band Mötley Crüe. As well as being the band’s long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects. He has also been married to actresses Heather Locklear and Pamela Anderson, with whom he had two children.