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TIPEEG spends N$1 million to create one job
ON Wednesday, November 14 The Namibian featured an article titled: “TIPEEG to create 3 000 jobs at NamPort”. The article explains that TIPEGG is to invest N$3 billion in NamPort. This investment is expected to create 3 000 jobs....[more]
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THERE is no room for Government shareholding. – Martin Hilbert, vice chairman of the Meatco board, said at a press conference on Wednesday, dashing Government’s intention to get at least a 30 per cent interest.[more]
Political Perspective
I HAVE always been an outspoken supporter of a minimum wage, and I never could understand all the excuses why this can’t or shouldn’t be done! And yet I’m not naive enough to think that all work is good work. [more]
Should We Continue To Call Them Honourables?
A STUDENT was recently expelled from a youth skills centre for asking whether councillors should indeed be called “Honourable”.[more]
Malema And The Myth Of Radical SA Politics
IF Malema had gate-crashed the ANC ‘Party’, then he wouldn’t have been at his friend’s party in Mauritius. With that purple suit, purple shoes and a purple hat, Malema couldn’t have gate-crashed. [more]
Swapo’s 2012 Presidential Campaign: A Mrs And Mr Personality Contest
IN January I am planning to see La Cerisaie, an opera piece of the comedy type inspired by the work of Anton Chekhov, at the Opéra Garničre, one of the world’s most prestigious operas. By the end of 2012, Swapo’s presidential...[more]
Shame on illegal squatters
Iam all for feeling bad about us being so poor. At the same time, I am not ashamed about being poor. Or whichever politically correct special something I have to believe about poverty that particular day, I will.[more]
Are We Turning Into ‘Vidiots’?
DID you know you may be turning into a ‘vidiot’? Heavy TV viewing (and new media devices such as game boxes, smart phones and computers) is not only said to be bad for one’s physical and mental health, but it also makes you fat!...[more]
Losing their lustre in 2011
THIS is the easiest year to look back on and yawn in disgust at newsmakers from here and beyond.[more]
Don’t Confuse Peace With The Absence Of War
NAMIBIA has done well to present good sales pitches for investors.[more]
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MANY black economic empowerment managers have become business tycoons, and are influencing parliamentary decisions and lobbying for legislation that will ultimately secure their wealth. – A report by a research team of the World...[more]
Chasing the dots ... My Diploma In Insanity Confirmed!
HERE we go again; retail therapy as all crush into malls to spend what they have not got! [more]
Climate Change Is A Matter Of Justice
BEFORE the Copenhagen climate-change summit two years ago, the two of us sat together in Cape Town to listen to five African farmers from different countries, four of whom were women, tell us how climate change was undermining...[more]
We Need To Rethink The Next Steps To Tackling Climate Change
THE main aim of the UN climate summit at Durban, which began on November 28 and finishes on December 9, is to produce an agreement about targets for emissions by developed countries, and longer term targets from developing...[more]
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SOME people think it’s a fishy idea and a property real estate scheme for trying to get land. [more]
Political Perspective
SO a big foreign policy indaba is planned at the coast for the weekend and hopefully we can expect something coherent to come out of it because we desperately need some direction in this regard. [more]