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If I have to give up my seat as Member of Parliament for this process, I will do so. – Henk Mudge, Republican Party (RP) president said after his party signed a memorandum of understanding to start the expected process of merging...[more]
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This is a good ruling and it proves that our judiciary is still independent. – McHenry Venaani, DTA secretary general told reporters that the nine opposition parties had a very strong case. The nine parties won the appeal against...[more]
GIPF, Government Idols Payola Fraud.
The Namibian 25 Year bash was great. Lots of people from those halcyon days of promise and optimism, some who have now trashed their values and dirtied their hands in the trough of self-enrichment and hypocrisy, some who retained...[more]
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That we should still be talking about that ban … is a sheer waste of time. The whole thing tarnishes everybody’s integrity. – Theo-Ben Gurirab, Speaker of Parliament, said he wanted to renew a call he had made earlier in writing...[more]
China-Africa: An economic partnership
CHINA is arguably the world’s second largest economy, having overtaken Japan recently. China’s economy grew at 11,9 per cent in the second quarter of 2010, ragging in U$1,337 trillion, with Japan at U$1,288 trillion during this...[more]
Reflections on Okakoverua bones!
YEARS back a periodical carried an article on Zimbabwe with pictures of that country’s war veterans demonstrating with posters to air their grievances. One poster read: ‘Born poor, grew up struggling; will die disappointed.’...[more]
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Some were what may be termed as being well-connected people and some not. – Hartmut Ruppel , Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) Chairman, says that a wholesale approach should have been adopted where the trustees would...[more]
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IT is our opinion that he cannot be president of a workers federation. – Nafinu general secretary Asnath Zamuee, said that NUNW presidency candidate, David Namalenga, who is the Human Resource Manager at the Road Contractor...[more]
Political Perspective
THERE is a poignant letter in today’s edition from a youth asking the country’s leadership to look forward rather than back, and instead of berating the youth, to try and empower them, especially against the background of...[more]
Of national days, ‘comrades’ and ‘traitors’
I MISSED last week’s Heroes Day celebrations. No, to put it more bluntly, I deliberately avoided attending any events and I don’t feel guilty or unpatriotic.[more]
Burn the System Down: Towards a United and Radicalised Civil Society
WHERE do we go from here? I think it is time we go back to the drawing board and ask what kind of societies we want to live in, and in what sense of democracy do we want these to be democratic societies? Are these the kind of...[more]
Kosie Pretorius On The Namibian at 25
WHY me? What weight can my opinion carry in the role of The Namibian over the past 25 years? Why was I the one, also ten years after its inception, who was asked to write something?[more]
A chronically insecure NUNW must change its tone and body language
LIKE many things in our country, the labour movement is chronically insecure. It is insecure because it does not have an independent identity. It is insecure because Union leadership became a class platform for material gain and...[more]
Time to take control
‘BACK to basics’ is the theme of the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) congress which kicks off this morning. What an appropriate theme. Ironically this was one of the subtitles of a research paper titled ‘Trade Unions in...[more]
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THESE people are killers. There are sick and broken people who need urgent special attention they cannot get at the state Hospital in Swakopmund, so they have to ‘urgently’ be transferred to Windhoek Central or Katutura State...[more]
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IT is detention in the style of Germany’s Nazi days. – Youth, Sport and Culture Minister told The Namibian angrily, after Police at Germany’s Munich airport detained him for several hours alleging he travelled with a fake...[more]
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HE raped your daughter. – Public Prosecutor Anthony Wilson told the mother of the older complainant who testified in support of rape and indecent assault suspect, Jack Coetzee’s, bail application.[more]
Media allowed ANC to fast-track the media tribunal
WHAT goes around comes around. Time has now come for the South African media to learn it the hard way. Many people might wonder why the recent furore over the proposed media tribunal in South Africa is not a surprise to the Media...[more]
An Idea Called THE NAMIBIAN!
THE scene on my mind opens with editor Hannes Smith pacing impatiently while carrying his little dog. His offices were invaded by the South African police and damning documents confiscated.[more]
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MY family will never be the same. – Part of the message that Leopold Shaimemanya delivered in the High Court, in the run-up to the sentencing of his son-in-law Lazarus Shaduka who is convicted in connection with the way his...[more]