Notable Quotes

If CEOs are not business minded then we have a big problem. – Karas governor Bernardus Swartbooi said this while encouraging local authorities’ CEOs to adopt a business-minded approach, at a one-day consultative meeting at Keetmanshoop on Monday.

If the liquor licence applicants want to demonstrate at my office or complain to the President, they can do that. – Karas governor Bernardus Swartbooi said this after ordering the region’s liquor board to place a moratorium on issuing new licences to alcohol outlets and ordering the prohibition of alcohol sales on Sundays.We need feedback. It does not matter if we are at sea, in the air or underground, we need this feedback on action taken and changes brought in. – Namsov worker Willem Kagola told company Managing Director Jan Arnold after the workers of the fishing company in Walvis Bay on Wednesday called for the removal of the company’s human resources manager, Willem Kafidi, blaming him for a long list of concerns. It’s the nature of the business. It’s part of the game we play because of our tourism facilities being located in natural disaster-prone areas. – The owner of Amanzi Trails River Camp, Johan la Grange, said the lawn at the camping area was already one metre under water on Wednesday after Namwater issued a flood warning to people along the Orange River.The bloated size of the Council of Traditional Leaders makes it increasingly difficult to hold regular meetings. – In 2009, Local Government Minister Jerry Ekandjo expressed concern about the number of traditional authorities. To date, this number has grown even more and the Minister this week denied ever having expressed concern. Where people are involved, irregularities are bound to happen. – Immanuel /Gâseb, the deputy chairperson of the Council of Traditional Authorities said on Wednesday expressing that it was difficult to monitor the purposes for which traditional leaders used the double-cab bakkies given to them over a year ago.An emergency is an emergency and you attend to that when it happens. – Katutura State Hospital medical superintendent Rheinhardt Gariseb said on Wednesday after he was questioned as to what would happen should a private patient of his experience an emergency during his office hours. This came after it was revealed that state doctors who run private practices on the side find themselves in a serious conflict of interest situation. I used to carry him, but I can’t do that anymore because the weight of his head and he is developing bruises on his head due to lying down all the time. – Olivia Ananias from Omahenene in Oshakati is pleading with government or any other care centre in the country to take in her son, who has hydrocephalus, because she can’t cope with caring for him. From the history booksI think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I’m saying? Move past the fear. – James Todd Smith (born January 14 1968), better known as LL Cool J (acronym for Ladies Love Cool James) is an American rapper and actor.A lie cannot live. – Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15 1929 – April 4 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using non-violent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.I resist the myth that I’m a shy, reclusive diva. I’m not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists. – Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, (born January 16 1959), better known as Sade, is a British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer.