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"On the other hand, a Development Budget of P17.47 billion is proposed to finance on-going and new programmes and infrastructural projects being implemented throughout the country. However, the implementation of the development budget is likely to continue to be undermined by implementation capacity, which characterises both the public and private sectors."

"With regard to employment creation, it is important to clarify that the principal role of the Government is not to create jobs directly, but to provide a conducive macroeconomic environment to facilitate the development of the private sector. The private sector, in turn, is expected to take advantage of such an environment to undertake investments, which would contribute to the growth of the economy and creation of sustainable employment opportunities."

"It is my sincere hope that as more banks and branches open in the country, competition will increase and thereby reduce the relative costs of banking services."

"Promoting sustainable and inclusive economic growth is vital for promoting long term economic development as well as addressing the demographic challenges that we are currently facing."

"We do not have a problem with China at all."

"We have dealt with China before and we know what we are doing as a government."

"Care needs to be taken not to overburden our future economic pathway with too much debt, which becomes the first call on future revenues."

"Government must also exercise caution in the use of accumulated cash reserves to finance development initiatives."

"We need to thoroughly examine the way we have been doing our business. We need to accept that today’s challenges require a new set of solutions and strategies, and be prepared to let go of old practices that no longer yield good results. We must find innovative solutions that are consistent with the changed environment."

"It is not because we do not want to do it, definitely we also want our people to live comfortably by earning a minimum wage or as some call it the living wage. Semantics do not matter. We cannot do it now at least because we have constraints. You cannot just announce it and say we will do it on day one."

"I am saying the net effect will surely be increased unemployment. That is what it would be. It will be almost immediately, not in the medium to long term, but immediate."

"So, this promise I dismiss it. It is really only a campaign talk. It is easy to do this if you are not accountable to anybody, it is easy. In reality if you tried it, you will have a worst situation about unemployment than we have today. That is the fact."

"I have no problem with the President of South Africa doing this, in South Africa he can afford to mention these figures, because he has a private sector that works. Private sector there works, it does not wait for government tenders, that is not what they wait for, they produce in order to sell internationally."

"Always give and that is an unfortunate situation we are in, but I am hopeful that it will improve in due course when the private sector matures, but for now it is a private sector to have a nurse the whole time. I am not going to accept any comparison with South Africa."

"It won’t happen overnight, I’m not sure we can change a whole culture. There will be lots of people who will never support us. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do anything. If we start winning and challenging the really good teams."

"Of the total P67.5 billion expenditure planned for the 2019/2020 financial year, P22.4 billion, or one-third is for paying salaries and allowances for those employed in the public service, while the balance of P45.1 billion or 66 percent will be available for government procurement of goods and services from the private sector. This is a significant amount availed by government to spur growth of the economy, and create employment opportunities."

"We need to continue to look at ways and means of achieving improved standard of living for our people. We should aim for high impact activities and policies for people centred development.We should aim to broaden the SADC economic bases with the aim of creating employment for our people."

"I urge the private sector to take responsibility for aligning their operations with our National Development goals so that together we move Botswana forward into the realisation of Vision 2036 and beyond."

"Justice rather than a deal – Matsheka 4 April 2025"

"Matsheka not resigning from BDP 7 August 2024"

"Professional accounting key to economic growth - Matambo 27 May 2013"

"Renewable Energy: The Case of Botswana 11 August 2014"

"Jewellers for further diversification 20 June 2014"

"‘Change attitude or quit’ ÔÇô Moroka tells Mochudi business 12 March 2009"

"Moroka urges government to support citizen empowerment more 25 June 2012"

"Ipelegeng entraps people into poverty - Moroka 11 September 2018"

"The silence seemed to me more instructive than words. A sense of power clung to him like a garment, and it required no utterance. The square-cut and deeply graven face, the huge body, and, above all, the sombre granitic look indicated a singleness of purpose, a dedication to some inward and unshakable decision."

"Among the tasks that life as a photographer had set me, a portrait of Albert Einstein had always seemed a 'must'—not only because this greatest refugee of our century has been accounted by all the world (except his homeland) as the outstanding scientist since Newton, but because his face, in all its rough grandeur, invited and challenged the camera."

"He marched in scowling, and regarded my camera as he might regard the German enemy. His expression suited me perfectly, if I could capture it, but the cigar thrust between his teeth seemed somehow incompatible with such a solemn and formal occasion. Instinctively I removed the cigar. At this the Churchillian scowl deepened, the head was thrust forward belligerently, and the hand placed on the hip in an attitude of anger. So he stands in my portrait in what has always seemed to me the image of England in those years, defiant and unconquerable."

"Well, you can certainly make a roaring lion stand still to be photographed."

"suffers from the drawback that it cannot with certainty distinguish between resemblances due to genetic affinity, on the other hand, and those which are the results of convergence or parallelism, on the other, and it possesses no trustworthy criterion, by which it can test the taxonomic significance of structural characters."

"The day has gone forever gone by when any one mind, however profound and comprehensive, can take all knowledge for its province. Increase of knowledge, like advance of civilization, necessarily brings with it a division of labor, and each of the great branches of science becomes more and more minutely divided and subdivided for the purposes of investigation. Such subdivision greatly enhances the efficiency of the individual worker, enabling him to concentrate his attention upon some problem of more or less limited scope, and, so far, it is advantageous. On the other hand, like most human devices, it has its drawbacks, and what is gained in one direction is apt to be lost in another. One great and growing evil is the subdiviision of knowledge which accompanies specialization of research."

"Only two or three years ago an expedition from the discovered a place in Wyoming where the lie directly upon those of the , thus fully confirming the inference as to the relative age of the two s which had long ago been drawn from the comparative study of their fossil mammals. The palæontological method of determining the geological date of the stratified rocks is thus an indispensable means of correlating the scattered exposures of the strata in widely separated regions and in different continents, it may be with thousands of miles of intervening ocean. The general principle employed is that close similarity of fossils in the rocks of the regions compared points to an approximately contemporaneous date of formation of those rocks. The principal must not, however, be applied in an offhand or uncritical manner, or it will lead to serious error."

"Among Scott's outstanding contributions to the study of evolution were two memoirs, both published in 1891, the first on ' and the second on ' and '. Besides the descriptive parts of these papers, the first included a list of what Scott considered the most important questions regarding evolution and the second attempted to answer these questions from the paleontological point of view."

"Some ugly perceptions about women and women’s rugby still exist in South Africa,To be honest, it’s a pain in the arse."

"When it happens I just smile and maybe just move on to something else. But it’s hard to hear. My parents stand behind me fully so I know that I have their support. So what other people think shouldn’t bother me. But it’s not nice to hear. I know that I’m not like a typical female. I’m built differently."

"There are things that you can’t translate into English, if you tried the sentence would be completely flat"

"It’s nice to be part of a professional group where you can just go out and have everything set up for you, but if I’m honest, there’s nothing that challenges you on game day.The biggest challenge comes in training. As an individual and as a team we’re not really tested on the weekend and that’s not good for us or for South African rugby. We need competition and the only way that can happen is if other teams invest like we have."

"I want to be one of the best players in the world, I want to play overseas, probably in England and the PWR where I can test myself against the best."

"I want to win awards and travel the world and be the best I can be. I want to be a role model and prove to people that South African women can play rugby at the highest level."

""And your Lord says, ‘Call upon Me; I will respond to you.’ Indeed, those who disdain My worship will enter Hell humiliated." — Qur'an 40:60"

""When My servants ask you concerning Me, indeed I am near. I respond to the call of the supplicant when he calls upon Me."— Qur'an 2:186"

""Call upon your Lord in humility and privately; indeed, He does not like transgressors."— Qur'an 7:55"

""Is He [not best] who responds to the desperate one when he calls upon Him and removes evil?"— Qur'an 27:62"

""Dua is the essence of worship." — Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3371"

""There is nothing more noble to Allah the Glorified, than supplication."— Sunan Ibn Majah 3829"

""Whoever wishes that Allah may respond to him during hardship, then let him supplicate often during ease."— Tirmidhi 3382"

""No Muslim supplicates to Allah without sin or breaking ties, except that Allah gives him one of three: He hastens his request, stores it for the Hereafter, or averts harm equal to it." — Musnad Ahmad 11133"

"“Establish prayer for My remembrance.”"

"“Indeed, prayer prohibits immorality and wrongdoing, and the remembrance of Allah is greater.”"