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Our presence here is a demonstration of the Commonwealth’s commitment to work with member states to support the strengthening and deepening of democracy.

— Mompati Merafhe

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Nobody has lost What has won is our ability as Batswana and Namibians to resolve differences peacefully.

It is our view that Africa should not try to undermine the work of the ICC simply because one head of state called Bashir has been indicted by the Court.

We are proud of these achievements and of the support given to us by Japan as the world’s second largest market for diamonds.

The elections were violence shy.But the other three criteria werecertainly lacking. You cannot saythey were transparent, you cannotsay they were fair and you cannotsay they were credible.

I skipped some ranks. I do not know how it feels like to be a Senior Superintendent because I moved straight from Superintendent to Assistant Commissioner of Police.

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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