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The Selling Of Namibia
THE Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has once again opted for the short-sighted part of the adage “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”.[more]
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WE plead with truck drivers to give as much space as possible between each other, in order to avoid a traffic pile-up which can lead to unnecessary overtaking of more than one vehicle and result in head-on collisions. – Eugene...[more]
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I ALSO call upon our entire criminal justice system to act firmly against perpetrators of crime, especially the crimes targeting women, girls, the elderly and other vulnerable members of our society. – President Hifikepunye...[more]
Chasing the dots ... The Fun and Intent of the Column
LIFE is a strange and ever-changing reality constantly confused, especially in this increasingly electronic world, with masses of new “information” and “events” portrayed to challenge beliefs and principles. [more]
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WE need to create a bill that will function for now and in the future. We need a total new platform to discuss and negotiate with government on this bill. – A farmer at the consultation meeting on the proposed bill on the new...[more]
The Race Is Far From Over For Geingob’s Supporters
DURING the early hours on Sunday the good heavens were witness to new Prime Minister Hage Geingob being anointed as the ruling party’s presidential candidate for 2014.[more]
‘Tis the Season of Goodwill…
Dear Hadago, Congratulations and all that on your reconfirmation in your position of VP at the recent congress of your party and the subsequent reappointment as prime minister of our country. [more]
To My Generation: Listen. Listen Very Carefully
Nelson Mandela famously said that the day the ANC does to us what the Apartheid government did, we should do to the ANC what we did to the Apartheid government. Corruption, greed and the rising discontent in our society should...[more]
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IT is trite that an order of the court must be obeyed and could not be set at naught and disobeyed by any member of the public inciting those against whom the order is made to disobey the order. – Acting Judge Collins Parker says...[more]
Namibia’s Dream For The Green Climate Fund Secretariat
THE stakes are high with the establishment of the Green Climate Fund, and not only in terms of the issue that the Fund intends to address – climate change.[more]
Why Not Hage Geingob?
UNDER the theme of ‘Why Not Hage?’, Team Geingob scooped a tsunami-like victory at the Swapo congress last weekend in Windhoek.[more]
What the Reshuffle Taught us
It’s sometimes better to shut the hell up. Yes, I said it! Kazenambo Kazenambo did all he could to derail his comrade Hage’s chances with his loose tongue and psycho outbursts. I don’t know how Jerry Ekandjo could stand for such...[more]
Press Freedom Can Be About Life And Death
HOW encouraging that the Swapo vice president, having secured the nomination from his party as their candidate to succeed President Pohamba, is extending an olive branch to the media.[more]
Large-scale Public Housing The Solution
I WAS prompted to write this piece by a Bank Windhoek advertisement at Windhoek’s Maerua Mall that says “You can’t say you have a home until you own one”.[more]
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I BELIEVE this is a step taken to stabilise our government system because it was really shaky and there was a lot of infighting and pressure. – Kazenambo Kazenambo, former Minister of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture on...[more]
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THE biggest fight which Government has is to fight poverty and N$400 000 for an event that last between two to three hours is not fighting poverty. – Albertus Aochamub, the NBC’s director general says it does not make sense to...[more]
Chasing the dots ... Doomsday Is Here, Great!
THE 12th of December 2012, the end of the world! So says Nostradamus in his age-old dictums, so forecasts the Mayan calendar as we move into the ‘Age of Aquarius’. [more]
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I WAS thinking it was going to be like 2004. This time in the fifth congress of the party, repetition was no longer there. We did it once and we completed the job. – President Hifikepunye Pohamba on the Swapo Party...[more]
The Improbable Run of Jerry Ekandjo for State House
LAST Saturday, we were at the National Theatre of Namibia indulging in a thoroughly colonial affair – the occasion being a rendition of the concert Händel’s Messiah.[more]