Notable Quotes

THESE are cold-related deaths, but an autopsy would be carried out to determine the real cause of the deaths.

– Police Commissioner Josephat Abel said this week about the three cold-related deaths that were reported at Keetmanshoop following an intense cold front sweeping through the southern parts of Namibia over the past few days.NORMALLY, for something to be illegal, it needs to be declared by a court of law. – Prime Minister Nahas Angula told The Namibian on the upcoming seal cull.IT started with a cold fever, very hectic headaches and body aches. Afterwards you feel very listless. One does not have strength. – Dr Charles Grevelink, a medical doctor at Aranos, on Wednesday confirmed that blood test results showed that Kobus van Wyk, a well-known karakul farmer in southern Namibia, has Rift Valley Fever (RVF).MANY countries, including mine, can neither achieve the targets we have set for ourselves 10 years ago, nor the Millennium Development Goals, without the support of our development partners. – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan was one of the African leaders on Wednesday that called for greater resources to battle the AIDS pandemic at a United Nations summit.ORDINARY people don’t have any rights at all. I feel so upset. – Zhang Shulan, a 64 year old Chinese woman decided to set herself alight in a land grab protest when ‘hired thugs’ came to evict her earlier this year. She poured petrol over herself and set it alight.We had seen these three guys from Africa, this Mozambique African dance troupe … we were like, ‘Wow, this is an amazing movement.’ And that movement has always been in the back of our head for the last year. – Frank Gatson, Jr Beyoncé’s choreographer said the new video, ‘Run The World’ (‘Girls’) was inspired by the Mozambique dance group Tofo Tofo, after they saw a video of them dancing on YouTube.Our expectation from the seventh National Assembly is that they should raise the bar on public probity and accountability by making public their salaries and allowances. – Farida Waziri, Nigeria’s Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday challenged members of the National Assembly to make public their salaries and allowances in order to remove the public distrust against them.STRIKERS did not play aggressively and intentionally kicked the ball to miss the goal. – Kwak Kyoo-Hong, a chief prosecutor in South Korea said they have charged 12 people including 10 players with involvement in match-fixing that has rattled the K-League. The players are accused of receiving money from brokers trying to fix results of two games in April.From The History BooksI GOT into television because I hated it so. I thought, there’s some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen. – Jeff Greenfield (born June 10 1943) is an American television journalist and author. Over the course of his career he has reported primarily on domestic politics and the media, and occasionally on culture. He appeared on the ‘Firing Line’ television programme in 1968. He served as media commentator for CBS News from 1979 to 1983 and as political and media analyst for ABC News from 1983 to 1997.I HAVE always respected everyone’s religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people. – Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11 1920 – October 2 1981) was a jazz and classical pianist and singer. Throughout the 1930s and 40s, she performed jazz, blues, ballads, popular (Broadway songs and boogie-woogie) and classical music in various nightclubs. HOW true Daddy’s words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. – Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (June 12 1929 – early March 1945) is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Germany. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary is one of the world’s most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.