Notable Quotes

The Bank of Namibia will continue to do what it needs to do. – BoN Governor Tom Alweendo said at his first monetary policy announcement of 2010 on Wednesday. BoN aims to regulate the banking sector tighter this year.

No public institution or office is above criticism and from the Head of State down to the lowest public official nobody is immune to criticism. – Acting Attorney General Albert Kawana said in a ministerial statement in Parliament on Wednesday after the judiciary were criticised recently.The world is changing so rapidly and new technology developing at lightning speed that that those who lag behind will not be able to catch up. – Environment and Tourism Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah during a parliamentary debate on the Defence Policy on Tuesday.I’m not corrupt. Even if I was, I don’t have the power to say who should be awarded tenders. I don’t hold a public office and I won’t within the next 15 years. But this is an example of brilliant black diamonds being attacked. I must restore the faith of South Africa’s youth by entering the business world. – Julius Malema in an interview on SABC. It was previously reported that Malema paid R1m in cash for a house in Polokwane and last year paid a deposit of over R2m for another house in Sandton. He later took out a bond of R850 000 on the first house. The youth league leader can’t account for either of these amounts. Beeld February 25 2010.Immortal at 200. – A banner headline in the Times of India. The Indian Express ran a half-page photo of a celebrating Tendulkar with the word ‘God!’ Indian media lauded Sachin Tendulkar with tributes after he became the first cricketer to score an unbeaten double hundred in a one day international against South Africa on Wednesday.President Yar’Adua is welcome back to the country. However, there is a difference between coming back to the country and being fit to discharge the functions and duties of the office of the President. – Kayode Ajulo, an Abuja-based lawyer said after President Umaru Musa Yar’adua’s returned from Saudi Arabia on February 25 when Yar’Adua landed at Abuja Airport.Don’t set sail on someone else’s star. – African ProverbAt this stage, we couldn’t play the opening game. That’s a fact. – Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke on February 23. Soccer City, the proposed venue for the opening match and final in Johannesburg, is yet to be completed and Fifa could not yet confirm the venues of training camps for all 32 teams. There is just over 100 days before kick-off.From the history booksA woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,the 32nd President of the United States, resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in support of African American opera singer Marian Anderson on February 26 1939. Anderson had encountered racism, discrimination, and segregation in the US (Although the DAR now forbids discrimination in membership based on race or creed, some members held segregationist views when segregation was tolerated in the US.A decision is what a man makes when he can’t find anybody to serve on a committee. – Fletcher Knebel (October 1, 1911 – February 26, 1993) was an American author of several popular works of political fiction. He committed suicide at the age of 81.I’m not satisfied with the explanations I get from TV or from school. – Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), better known by her stage name Erykah Badu is an African-American recording artist, record producer and actress.