Columns
Cost Of Talk-Shops Is Huge For The Economy
EVERY day around N$1 million in tax money is spend on Subsistence and Travel (S&T) allowances for Government officials. [more]
The Politics of Unemployment: While The People Toil The Leaders Toyi-Toyi
“LIES, damned lies, and statistics.” [more]
Why Pohamba And Swapo Are Getting It Wrong On Succession, Again…
IN a speech of self-flagellation about the decaying state of China at the July 1959 Lushan Conference of the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman Mao Zedong, the first Chairman of the People’s Republic of China remarked: “The chaos...[more]
Making A Mockery Of Sacrifice
FOR those who can’t be hoodwinked with lame excuses of ‘imperialist conspiracy,’ two major triggers for the collapse of the Zimbabwean economy in the late 1990s and early 2000s stand out.[more]
Notable Quotes
Unfortunately we in Namibia have no culture to appreciate designer hand-made Namibian goods and no pride in the goods. [more]
Ensuring Family Planning Access: African Leaders Should Do More
ROSE is a mother of four, with a fifth on the way. At a time when she should be eagerly awaiting the birth of her child, she is instead worried about how to prevent her next pregnancy. She'd like to wait at least two years, but...[more]
Namibia and America: Leading With Science, Uniting for Action on HIV-AIDS
EVERY year on December 1, we commemorate World AIDS Day. It is a day to reflect on lives lost, and lives forever changed, as a result of AIDS. [more]
Notable Quotes
THE best way to keep a nonviolent movement nonviolent is to throw a party and keep it festive.[more]
Chasing the dots ... Hey Diddle Diddle, Who’s Not On The Fiddle?
I LOVE children’s rhymes taught at nursery school and by loving parents. Of course, when you grow up, and are lucky enough to be in a position to utilise your enquiring mind, you learn that the origins of such tales are less than...[more]
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Namibians lack an entrepreneurial spirit, and are jobseekers instead of job creators, but be warned that there are simply not enough jobs to go around. [more]
Development as freedom
IN economics development is measured by the growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or the level of industrialization of a country. [more]
Dealing with the past – another German Perspective
THE repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany has evoked painful memories of colonial wars and about genocide perpetrated in what was then the colony of German South West Africa. [more]
Notable Quotes
Our houses are being broken down. We are being moved to the grootpad (main road). – The Audabib squatters who were removed by the sheriff and the police, taken off the farm and onto the main gravel road linking Dordabis and...[more]
Notable Quotes
LET US ALL, as we face the challenges to media freedoms not only in Namibia but across the continent, continue to elevate excellence in journalism in our media on a daily basis. – Gwen Lister emphasised the importance of...[more]
Political Perspective
I’M not that fussed about who the final Swapo contenders will be for the Presidency, since we’re usually told to butt out when we take an interest anyway. [more]
When criminals get what they deserve
THE comeuppance of Sylvester and Gavin Beukes this week and the previously indomitable Ninja turning into a purring pussycat should serve as example for would be and experienced criminals to stop and think.[more]
Introducing The Queen
Ishould be screaming, “Hoorah! “... and be running around in slow motion ala Julie Andrews in ‘The Sound of Music’. [more]
Workers Must Oust Napwu Leadership
‘NAPWU defies own constitution’, reads the latest headline of a news report on the troubled union for public servants. [more]
To Recognise or Not: Ovazemba Quest For A Chief
DESPITE the provisions of the Traditional Authority Act, it has always been an uphill battle for smaller or perhaps politically ‘peripheral’ and ‘insignificant’ ethnic groups, in Namibia, to have chiefs of their choice officially...[more]
Namibia’s Media Landscape Is Stuck In The Stone Age
WEAK and bad journalism has the potential to undermine democratic debate and development. [more]