Notable Quotes

Rules exist to promote predictability and certainty. – Judge President Petrus Damaseb and Judge Collins Parker agreed that nine opposition parties’ election applications against the presidential and the National Assembly elections had to be struck from the court roll because both applications were filed late in terms of the court rules and the Electoral Act.The public expect their enforcement and ‘justice’ demands that the law is complied with.

It [the ruling] is imprisoning the freedom of the people to seek recourse – DTA Secretary General McHenry Venaani said on the court’s ruling to strike the challenge of last year’s presidential and national assembly elections from the roll.But we must be absolutely sure that progress is being made. We must be moving from what is a unity, transitional government to free and fair elections. – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said sanctions against Zimbabwe should not be lifted until human rights and media censorship concerns are addressed.From the history booksFor those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible. – Stuart Chase (March 8 1888 to November 1985) was an American economist and engineer. His writings covered topics as diverse as general semantics and physical economy. His hybrid background of engineering and economics places him in the same philosophical camp as R. Buckminster Fuller. It has been suggested that he was the originator of the expression ‘a New Deal’, which became identified with the economic programs of American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.