Columns
NAMIU Shouting on a False Note
After we've laughed ourselves stukkend over the annual blunder fest that is the NAMAs, and hurled our anger at the organisers before we started a rumour that organiser-in-chief Tim Ekandjo was sacked, a bunch of clueless...[more]
Notable Quotes
I WANT justice to be done, tomorrow it will be someone else assaulted by the same officers. – Thomas Shetekela said as he mourns the death of his son, Mandela Ramakhutla who died after a week of fighting for his life in the...[more]
Political Perspective
AT TIMES we tend to live in the past, and at others, we forget our history completely. There surely must be a happy medium.[more]
Peace Corps: A Model Worth Emulating
THOSE searching for answers on how to prepare and engage Namibian youth productively may find a few in the Peace Corps model. [more]
Alignment, Co-option And Suspended Workers’ Struggles
NEXT week is Workers’ Day (1 May) and it would be interesting to hear what the union leadership will be telling their ‘loyal folk’. Because last year was not the best of times for workers in Namibia and South Africa. We witnessed...[more]
Thatcher’s Lessons For Namibia
I WAS in detention – together with many other political activists – in the Gobabis prison in 1979 when we learnt that Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party had won the British general elections. We were disappointed...[more]
A Campaign For All, Not Some Elitist Jamboree
EVERY now and then a major campaign is launched with much fanfare in order to raise awareness about a noble issue. Often, however, the message is lost in the euphoria and the adrenalin of the moment. Sometimes the main issue is...[more]
Notable Quotes
We have to deal with the system. It is a structural apartheid system that still exists in our education system. It has denigrated the African child to the periphery. – Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Sidumo Dlamini...[more]
Notable Quotes
ENGLISH will be in ICU and covered in plasters judging from the rate at which it’s being broken at #NAMAs2013. – @JosefAmwandi commented on The Namibian’s Twittersphere section’s Namibia Annual Music Awards discussions.[more]
Chasing the dots Growth, Jobs and
Quasi-Governance“Growing the Economy, Optimising Development Outcomes” and “Jointly doing More with Less”, the headline mottos on our budget documents, and sure this is what we want, but the budget contents and subsequent actions...[more]
Notable Quotes
This is affirmation that structures of the party are recognised. Similarly, it should be for section, branch, district, regional leaders of the party be considered in the same way. – Elijah Ngurare, the secretary of the Swapo...[more]
Stop Degenerating Into Tribal Fests
THE work of the three men appointed last year to constitute the delimitation commission must surely be drawing to a close. Their report is intended to influence the determination of (new) boundaries of constituencies and regions...[more]
Thatcher’s Ideas Live On
MARGARET Thatcher was the woman who began the shift to the right that has affected almost all the countries of the West in the past three decades. She died two weeks ago at the age of 87, 34 years after she became Britain’s first...[more]
Notable Quotes
LEADERSHIP is nothing but a sacrifice. Our remuneration and welfare need a serious re-look. We are giving a service to this country, whether you like it or not. – Swapo’s Kazenambo Kazenambo said at the discussion of the budget...[more]
Notable Quotes
THE building is dilapidated and we want law and order to prevail. – Ministry of Health and Social Services Permanent Secretary, Andrew Ndishishi, on the ministry evicting tenants from the Windhoek Central Hospital’s nurses home.[more]
Political Perspective
HOW many of us don’t talk the talk about patriotism and national pride, but when it comes down to it, we don’t care for our country in ways that we should? [more]
Dealing With Empty Promises
THE only lesson that seems to come from the saga of the ‘struggle kids’ who are demanding that they be given jobs, training and cash payouts is that our government leaders are becoming masters at passing the buck.[more]
No Participatory Democracy Without A Participatory Economy
“THE harmony of egoism promised by Adam Smith, and the prospect of greater happiness promoted by Jeremy Bentham, failed miserably when confronted with the great divide between rich and poor in early liberal capitalist societies”,...[more]
Only in Namibia
Namibia, the country nestled between two deserts, where only a handful of people speak a bag full of languages, even one close to English, where we drink more than the british and irish combined and do not frown on our fellow...[more]
Collusion and Consequences: Companies Take Note
THE focus of the Namibian Competition Commission is likely to be on the country’s construction industry in the not too distant future.[more]