Noteable Quotes

OPPOSITION parties are just empty drums. – Deputy Local and Regional Government Minister Kazenambo Kazenambo during a discussion in the National Assembly on the Electoral Amendment Bill

IT is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it. – Nelson Mandela calling on people to dedicate their time and effort to serving their communities, as his life is celebrated on July 18, his 91st birthdayWE must be as fair, impartial and apolitical as possible. – Zimbabwean lawmaker Douglas Mwonzora on the two-day constitutional talks in Harare this week that were disrupted by militant Zanu-PF loyalists on the opening day on MondayI’M sorry – deeply sorry – for the harm and sadness I have caused so many people. – US lawyer Marc Dreier at his sentencing in New York on Monday to 20 years in prison in a U$400 million fraud scheme IT’S the American tourist lost in Paris that we inform politely, it’s the English person looking for the way in northern France who we don’t get impatient with by honking our car horns. – Paris tourist board head, Paul Roll, on a campaign to smile at visitors to France and make them feel welcome after tourist numbers fell due to the recessionFrom the history booksHERE men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. – Neil Armstrong, the first man to step onto the Moon. On July 16 1969, Apollo Eleven blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon