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New Deal For Namibia
KWAME Nkrumah once said: “We shall measure our progress by the improvement in the health of our people; by the number of children in school, and by the quality of their education; by the availability of water and electricity in...[more]
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Crimes involving domestic violence are rampant in Namibia and it is mostly directed against women and children. There is a public outcry that perpetrators of these crimes should be given stiffer sentences to root out the evil of...[more]
Chasing the dots The Best Man for the Job
YET again I was cogitating in the cool of a near winter morning, pondering again on that bed of yellow flowers in front of me when the news of the death of Margaret Thatcher was announced. [more]
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ITS not a unity (meeting) at all if the chiefs are not consulted and are invited through the media. – Immanuel #Nu-Axa /Gaseb of the !Oe#Gan traditional authority condemned the planned unity meeting for Damaras at Otjimbingwe on...[more]
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WE are working with members of InterPol in Angola and other countries. We did not make any breakthrough yet in connection with [Lazarus] Shaduka’s arrest, but we are hard at work to track him down. – NamPol spokesperson,...[more]
The Laggards That We are
IS Namibia risking tumbling out of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)? The short answer is, probably not. But we need to qualify our answer by adding a few more details so as to complete the narrative, as this issue has...[more]
Conundrum Of The Unemployed Youth!
NAMIBIA is a country with a massive population of young people and most bear the brunt of unemployment. The Namibia Statistics Agency estimates that about 66 percent of the population is under the age of 30 years compared to only...[more]
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I am not seeking compensation but will inform potential dog owners of this scam – owner Johaness Baader said in an email to The Namibian after he was charged N$12 000 to fly his dog from Windhoek to Frankfurt by Air Namibia [more]
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These figures [contained in the NLFS 2012] should not be seen as indicating declines when compared to the previous labour force survey. – Statistician General John Steytler, said after releasing the Namibia Labour Force Survey...[more]
Political Perspective
THERE are simply no consequences for mismanagement, waste and corruption. Which is why it is impossible to believe the President or any other high-ranking officials when they make promises to tackle this scourge.[more]
Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics
WHOA! Hold your horses! Lovers of polemics, rhetoric, semantics and debates have gone to town testing their punditry over the latest jobs statistics, declaring that unemployment figures from the 2008 Namibia Labour Force Survey...[more]
Pulling a Woody on Kandeshi
So much has happened in Namibia since I've last talked about how unique our Namlish is and how rich it already is. Well, actually I'm lying. Nothing ever happens in Namibia but we create entertainment for ourselves. You know how...[more]
The Crisis Is Systematic, Not Regulatory
LET me, as a point of departure, remind the leaders, if they need reminding at all, that what they promised the people was to imagine a country with no poverty. With no one who sleeps under bridges or rummages through garbage for...[more]
State Of The Nation Address Needs Faces
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba’s 2013 State of the Nation address on 3 April 2013 was powerful, too long, and heavy on policy content. [more]
Freedom of Expression v Right to Privacy
IN HIS seminal work ‘Law’s Empire’ the late Ronald Dworkin, arguably one of the greatest legal philosophers who dominated Anglo-American jurisprudence, posits that “we live in and by the law”. And in ‘Justice for Hedgehogs’...[more]
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WE don’t give a damn for other people’s wars. – Koevoet veterans at the unveiling of the wall of remembrance and statue honouring of controversial Koevoet soldiers who died in service last weekend.[more]
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I AM strong, nobody and nothing can put me down – not even discrimination, not my HIV status, and not even the fact that I am not educated. I’m standing tall knowing that I’m beautiful. – Helena Nangombe, a survivor of sexual...[more]
Chasing the dots ... One day it had to happen!
There was little me cogitating in the gently increasing warmth of the mid morning breeze, unthawing from the previous nights cold snap and wondering about the beautiful carpet of yellow flowers spreading in front of me but, as we...[more]
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IT IS disheartening for me to learn that there are no tangible corresponding results with the billions of dollars spent every year in our education. – Minister of Education David Namwadi said when he was addressing education...[more]
Our Broken State Of The Nation
LAST month marked the 23rd anniversary of our statehood and as the clock ticks on we are, at the same time, excited to see off Oom Lukas in compliance with Article 29(3) of the country’s Constitution which deals with presidential...[more]