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IF you enter the theatre, the heat slaps you in the face. Our sweat drips on the patients. It feels as if we are working in hell. – A nursing sister who works at the Katutura State Hospital complained about the lack of proper...[more]
Another Test for President Pohamba
Déjà vu! Another leadership test for President Pohamba has emerged; stirring up yet another public debate about Namibia’s simmering ethnic tensions. The details are still sketchy, but the latest ethnic and racial outburst...[more]
Political Perspective
I WISH we could declare war on prejudice in 2013, because while this wouldn’t fix everything, it would make our Namibia a much better place to be. But if we want to eliminate prejudice, we would all need to honestly ask ourselves...[more]
A Need To Innovate Human Rights Activism
WHAT is the task of a human rights activist? Helping victims of human rights violations may be the first answer. Now there are specialists dealing with perpetrators and victims of rights violations, which include law enforcement...[more]
‘Never Again’ in Kenya?
NAIROBI – As Kenya approaches its general election on March 4, memories of the bloodshed that marred the controversial 2007 presidential election remain fresh. The vote ended in a standoff between the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, who...[more]
Only The First Step
NOTHING should take the shine off the Ministry of Education’s giant step to abolish school fees for grades zero to seven. [more]
Notable Quotes
AS far as I am concerned, you have to search for the answers at the parental home which has failed society. – Veronica De Klerk, the Executive Director of Women’s Action for Development (WAD) says that Namibia finds itself in a...[more]
Chasing the dots ... Moral Fibre, Motivation and the Modern World
The Christmas break period is not one usually mapped as one where one's basic views are challenged as the media and town environment is usually overrun with the normal retail therapy propaganda while paper and electronic media...[more]
Notable Quotes
WE need to give praise and recognition to... (the) unsung heroes of the fourth estate. – Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) Chief of Human Capital, Tim Ekandjo told a local daily newspaper that Namibian journalists have done...[more]
Should Windhoek Provide?
THIS is our first interaction in 2013 and, for this reason, we wish all our readers a year in which the civic-minded will do the utmost to put our country on an unreversable pedestal of growth and prosperity. [more]
Our Education Crisis And The World Bank
THE decision by the Ministry of Education to scrap school fees at primary schools can only be applauded (‘Ministry abolishes primary school fees,’ The Namibian, 20 December). This expresses the reality that education is a social...[more]
Notable Quotes
THERE is a big difference between a healthy and sober debate on tribalism and racism, and outright tribalism and racism. – Norman Tjombe, a Human rights lawyer condemned the alleged comments made by the Deputy Minister of Mines...[more]
Notable Quotes
IN the absence of a statement, please conclude that it’s all moving reasonably well. – The government of South Africa insisting that no news on Nelson Mandela is good news and that he is continuing to recover well.[more]
Political Perspective
ALTHOUGH government, especially under former Minister of Environment and Tourism Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has been acknowledged for a job done well in encouraging conservation in general and virtually eliminating poaching of rhino...[more]
A Gift Against Prejudice
WHILE a cloud of euphoria still hangs over the country suggesting that the mere choice of a non-Oshiwambo speaker in Prime Minister Hage Geingob will assuage tribal and other prejudices, reality appears to have hit fast with...[more]
Chasing the dots ... Capital Adequacy, Social Inadequacy
Looking back at the last two years it is quite evident, although totally unverifiable, that a worldwide coup has been effected. [more]
He Said ‘Let There Be A University, And There Was A University’
AT last common sense has prevailed. [more]
In Search Of The Real African City
THE good professor, Joe Diescho, once noted that Chinese are clear about who they are. Are we? [more]
Why Oshana Got Bronze
OSHANA has joined others as one of the top three and best performing educational regions in the country during 2012 Grade 10 Junior Secondary Certificate (JSC) final examination results.[more]
