Notable Quotes

WE HAVE lost someone who was very determined to build the country economically. He has contributed to the employment rate in the country. – Information and mobilisation secretary for the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), Jeremiah Nambinga, described the late business icon Harold Pupkewitz as a prominent businessman who contributed greatly to the growth of the Namibian economy.

A PICTURE may be worth a thousand words. Yet, in this case, verbal descriptions of the death and burial of Osama bin Laden will have to suffice. – James Boasberg, US district judge, refusing to order Obama’s administration to release pictures and video of the military operation that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan almost a year ago.TEN unarmed observers, 30 unarmed observers, 300 unarmed observers, even a thousand unarmed observers cannot solve all the problems. – Robert Mood, head of the UN observer mission to Syria, reiterating that the success of special envoy Kofi Annan’s six-point plan requires the cessation of all violence.From the History BooksIt does not matter how deep the truth may be buried, it is never destroyed. – Bulelani T Ngcuka (born May 2 1954) was the first national Director of Public Prosecutions in South Africa, and is the husband of former Deputy President of South Africa Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. He was embroiled in controversy after being accused of being an apartheid spy.