Theo-Ben Gurirab

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

"African unity is not an empty slogan but rather an encompassing vision for socio-economic reconstruction, accountable government and empowerment of the masses of our people for self-development"

"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."

"Namibia’s fate or fortune lies with Africa and there are no two ways about that. If not by blood and heritage, certainly by political geography and strategic considerations, Africa is one and indivisible"

"For all these good things to happen, constitutional democracy, viable administration of justice and gender equality must meet the high standards of political legitimacy and verifiable combat against all forms of corruption and organised crime"

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"The atrocities committed at the time would today constitute genocide"