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THAT’S utter rubbish from Kaaronda and his comrade Amukwiyu. They don’t have our support. [more]
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BEFORE anyone gives me a lecture about homosexuals and their rights, first talk about railways. – Yoweri Museveni, Ugandan President, rejecting Western attempts to link international aid with progress on gay rights, saying...[more]
Chasing the dots ... All For One And One For All
I LOVE this time of year, quiet, inactive. GRN shuts down, thus minimising the damage it can do or the money it can waste. Any form of business not directly benefiting from the seasonal retail insanity winds down. [more]
Is Namibia Doing Enough To Address Baby Dumping?
A teenager makes an unwise decision. She has sex with her boyfriend without using protection. A learner enters into a relationship with her teacher who offers her good marks if she agrees to have sex with him. A 20-year-old woman...[more]
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WE are not going to give a response on the matter. You can just write the article without our comment. – Tsumeb Chief Executive Officer Archie Benjamin refusing to shed light on the outsourcing of the solid waste operations of...[more]
We Have Not Captured Tracts Of Communal Land
IN its Tuesday November 22, 2011 edition, The Namibian in one of its front-page articles titled ‘Political elite “capturing” communal land’ ascribed the practice to former Swapo Party Member of Parliament Helmut Angula and the...[more]
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THE effect of this is that holders of such permits are conducting offshore bunkering operations in an illegal, unregulated and unreported manner and consequently posing oil pollution risks. [more]
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THESE are people who don’t have their basic needs met, but still have hope and smile every day, and that motivates me to help look for solutions to their problems.[more]
Political Perspective
SOMETIMES things just aren’t fair and the public are totally within their rights to be outraged, especially when it comes to corruption and graft and greed! Hypocrisy predominates, different standards are applied to rich and...[more]
Swapo Women’s Congress: Paving The Way For ‘A Neutral’?
THE outcome of last weekend’s Swapo Party Women’s Council congress has given many following the 2012 Swapo succession debate much food for thought.[more]
The Interface Between Language And Knowledge
A LOT has been written about the poor state of English among our teachers at our schools recently.[more]
Africa Needs Smart States To Engage China
ONE of the defining features of Africa’s geopolitics and economics during the past decade has been the degree to which China has established itself as a leading political and commercial interlocutor in African affairs. By all...[more]
Authorities Are Callous About Baby-Dumping
NO threats of prosecution and bluster will change the reality. Young women, especially teenagers, will continue to dump newborn babies and many others will be forced to give them up in one way or the other.[more]
Sorry 2011, I Was Wrong
YOU know how we only realize how important or valuable something is after we’ve lost it? I feel like this about this year. [more]
Some Christmas gift ideas for all of us
MOST of us wait until the last minute to scramble for whatever Christmas gifts are still available on the shelves, almost always at exorbitant prices. So, I’ve decided to dispense with some free advice for great gift ideas for...[more]
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MORE transfers in the force are coming, as the recent wave of transfers of senior officers was just the beginning.[more]
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WITH a united community we’ll overcome the resistance of the enemy called crime. [more]
Chasing the dots ... Six Of The Best, Ho, Ho, Ho
SOMETIMES our pervasive, biased and repetitive TV news stations redeem themselves. [more]
Solidarity, Freedom and Justice?
DECEMBER 10 is a public holiday in Namibia. Not because this is declared as Human Rights Day by the United Nations, which on this day in 1948 adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Namibians have a holiday because the...[more]