Columns
Freedom And Equality For Women – The Indian Lesson
ON SUNDAY, December 16 2012, a major incident aroused India – a young medical student was gang-raped and brutally assaulted with an object. The male friend she was travelling with was beaten and unable to fend off the gang. The...[more]
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I TRY to see and then make simple photographs of what cannot be explained. – Christian Goltz, a Namibian photographer, describes his works.[more]
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THERE is no law in Namibia that prescribes what length a skirt must be before arrest and prosecution is mandated. – Jacqueline W Asheeke, a columnist for The Namibian condemned the recent arrest of young women in Rundu, based on...[more]
Chasing the dots ... Celebrity Collapse!
FROM the sixties, that revolutionary period of free love, flowers behind the ear (not me), mods and rockers having their weekend ‘workouts’ ( I rode a bike, and still do), the idiocy and political mania of the Vietnam war...[more]
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WHAT happened there is between him and the devil. All I can say is that this is madness. – Erongo police Deputy Commissioner Andreas Nelumbu on a rape incident that took place in Kramersdorf where a 74-year-old woman was raped in...[more]
Finally A Government For The People?
PRESIDENT Robert Gabriel Mugabe, despite many a summer behind his back, was in fine mettle this past week. For one, (don’t laugh) he dug up that old horse of a single president for Africa. [more]
The Fight Over The Mini
THE recent report of police in Rundu arresting Namibian citizens because of the clothing they were wearing is hugely disturbing. These women were wearing miniskirts that the police in that area decided were ‘too’ short. The...[more]
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THAT is lazy talk. We can give them [other schools] the same learners, they won’t achieve what we do. Our system is different. – Mary Phillis Yesudan, who is the principle of St Boniface college in Rundu, disputed claims that her...[more]
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AS a nation, we must interrogate ourselves. – Deputy Minister of Education, David Namwandi expressed disappointment on the 2012 Grade 12 ordinary level results. [more]
Political Perspective
EDUCATION takes many forms. It’s in the public eye right now as a result of the just-released results and most of the schools that have performed well are private rather than government ones. [more]
The ‘Quiet Operator’: Lazarus Hangula On Scholarship, Unam And The Rest Of Us
IF IT was a business personality of the year award the newspapers would have probably put that on page two or three. But here is a Namibian academic receiving an award for his outstanding contribution to education in Africa. Yet...[more]
Where is the Health Probe Report?
FIVE months have passed since President Pohamba ordered the commission of inquiry into the state of Namibia’s public health sector. The president wanted the commission to report back with their findings within four months. But...[more]
Daylight Robbery With Impunity
JUST before Christmas (on December 20 2012) The Namibian published an article in the Bottomline section about the startling report released by Global Financial Integrity (GFI) on illicit financial flows internationally and from...[more]
The Heavy Opportunity Cost
THE money that the government spent last year to keep its companies in business could have built 10 top-notch regional hospitals or 100 schools or 600 commuter buses carrying about 60 people. It’s all about choices and very often...[more]
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THIS only expanding, expanding is not fair. You chew what you can chew. You cannot expand like you are America with money. – Erkki Nghimtina, Minister of Works and Transport warned Government may lose sympathy for Air Namibia,...[more]
Chasing the dots ... The Last Chance Saloon!
WE enter yet another year as the global organised crime syndicates meet in Davos to exchange inside trading information, tax-avoidance deals and creative money-laundering methods in collusion with the regulatory bodies of major...[more]
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I DID not tell them [students] to copy. Or did they send their children to copy? I’m just doing my job. Let’s wait for the investigation results. – The director for National Examinations and assessment, Cavin Nyambe confirmed...[more]
Education Is Expensive? Try Ignorance
EDUCATION Minister Abraham Iyambo made an announcement shortly before Christmas last year, that primary school education will be free starting today. This is, of course, rightly only applicable to public schools, as those who opt...[more]
Syria: No End in Sight
THE most frustrating part of covering the Lebanese civil war (1975-90) was that after a while there was nothing left to say. Syria is starting to feel just the same. It’s horrible, but atrocities are a daily event in all civil...[more]
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I am dead tired. – Chief Justus //Garoëb about his political future and that of the United Democratic Front (UDF), which will hold a congress during the second half of this year to elect a new leader for the first time as its...[more]