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Theo-Ben Gurirab Quotes

born 1938 Namibia

Theo-Ben Gurirab (born 23 January , 1938) was a Namibian politician who served in various political positions including as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 2000, Minister of Information and Broadcasting from 2000 to 2002. He was a founding member of parliament and a member of the Constituent Assembly Constitution Drafting Committee.

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I am appalled at the suffering that has been inflicted on the Palestinian people in Gaza.

We must walk in tandem with the letter and spirit of the Constitution in particular the preamble.

Politics is the good place to be. It is a good thing to be politically ambitious if you really care for your improvement and serving your people.

We would not want development aid to dictate priorities for us but rather to assist priorities we developed ourselves.

Government and the media should work together like Siamese twins when it comes to issues of national interest.

Traditional leaders of our communities must show leadership and vision to be serious and act for a change, not for their own sake but in the interest of the people themselves.

Ignoring these demands of the people is unacceptable and self-defeating

The road to democratisation is a long, tortuous and zigzagging road

We have to cultivate a culture of hard work and excellence

History is always the way but it has its place of honour until it is needed.

We stand at the brink of a crisis of enormous proportions with repercussions on our ability to produce enough food and alleviate human suffering

We [Namibians] are entitled to official apology, justice and reparations

The atrocities committed at the time would today constitute genocide

I have personally witnessed the media destroying elected heads of state or government, undermining stability through collaboration in assassinations or by conducting of espionage.

Your seats are vacant when your counterparts debate these challenges and to close the ranks of the descendants of the victims

For us poverty is actual and present danger and it comes first

There is no statue of limitations on genocide and injustice

While we like promises, the problems we face call for delivery in real terms

We Africans must assume full ownership of the kind of transformation and a new beginning that must happen for our own sake

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Theo-Ben Gurirab (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.