Notable Quotes

KARIBIB is divided. The community – and in the municipality. You get those on Kandetu’s side, and those on the council’s side. It’s a 50/50 issue. – A source on the long standing dispute about Karibib’s suspended CEO Lydia Kandetu
 
 WE were told that if we belong to another party other than the ruling party, we would not receive food.

KARIBIB is divided. The community – and in the municipality. You get those on Kandetu’s side, and those on the council’s side. It’s a 50/50 issue. – A source on the long standing dispute about Karibib’s suspended CEO Lydia Kandetu

WE were told that if we belong to another party other than the ruling party, we would not receive food. – Vakarunga Tjombizu from the Ohaiuua Resettlement Village near Opuwo, who claimed people are being bullied into joining the ruling party

WE have Mahatma Gandhi at the back of our minds as we embark on this hunger strike. – Zimbabwean solidarity group Save Zimbabwe Know announcing a series of hunger strikes until the country’s political crisis is resolved

STICKS and stones have broken my bones, but names can harm. – Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs, who lost an arm in a car bomb in 1988, on criticism of court judgements

NATIONAL security should not be used as an excuse to avoid a criminal investigation where there is evidence of a criminal offence. – Axed South African national prosecutions chief Vusi Pikoli, on his thwarted attempt to prosecute police commissioner Jackie Selebi

YOU can have a million extraordinary summits but as long as no-one (in the SADC leadership) has the courage to look at Mugabe in the face and tell him, ‘old man, logic has to prevail’, it will be meaningless. – MDC secretary general Tendai Biti on yet another SADC summit meant to kick-start Zimbabwe’s power-sharing deal

ONE principal was shocked to see sangomas in the school yard. – North West education department spokesman Charles Raseala after parents withdrew their children from two schools in Sefikile after sangomas planted muti on the premises

YOUR presidency brings hope of new beginnings in the relations between nations, that the challenges we all face, be they economic, the environment, or in combating poverty or the search for peace, will be addressed with a new spirit of openness and accommodation. – Nelson Mandela in a letter to new US President Barack Obama

From the history books
TO understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French. – Madeleine Albright who was sworn in as the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State on January 23 1997

A POLITICIAN needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen. – Former British prime minister Winston Churchill who died on January 24 1965 aged 90

IN any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. – Idi Amin Dada who ousted President Milton Obote, who was away on a foreign trip, as president of Uganda on January 25 1971