Notable Quotes

IT’S a big mess that won’t be sorted out overnight. – Rian Archer of the Walvis Bay Municipality’s hazardous waste management division on the 100 000 litre diesel leak at the coastal town

POWER is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless. – Lech Walesa (born 1943), human rights activist, Polish president and Nobel laureate CONTRARY to reports in the press this morning, Air France is not planning to force corpulent passengers to pay for a second seat. – Statement from the airline denying it would make overweight passengers buy two seatsI ONCE met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult. – Charles Buxton (1823 – 1871), English brewer, philanthropist, writer and politician From the history booksWE pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder … We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. As leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union, he was allowed to return to Rhodesia for the first time in five years on January 27 1980. He was elected independent Zimbabwe’s first Prime Minister in March of that year becoming executive president in 1987, when the post of prime minister was abolished