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The Namibian
Mon 12 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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| 2013-08-09
No Safe Place For Women
NAMIBIA is renowned as an exemplary tourism destination in Africa. This is owing to critical aspects, such as infrastructure, cultural diversity and vastness, but most of all, its political stability and peace.
Equally, Article 6 (Protection of life), Chapter 3 of the Constitution, states that “right to life shall be respected and be protected”. It further maintains that “no executions shall take place in Namibia”.
For a lack of a competent interpretation to the above, I would have hoped that protection and respect shall be ensured by the law, such that in an event of violation, severe measures shall be in place and be applied to retain and restore confidence of the nation in its constitution. And no executions shall take place in Namibia, would have meant, zero fatal and stringent actions shall be taken against perpetrators, swiftly.
In recent weeks, let alone past years, both print and televised media, have been fountains of saddening news of gruesome acts – women killed by men.
It is perturbing to note that a perpetrator who killed a child had been given bail and eventually killed a woman while on bail. It’s disheartening to hear that a four-year-old girl witnessed the brutal stabbing of her mother. This does not build a stable future for a woman at all, not to mention this child in particular. This child will grow up in fear, no matter how much counselling she goes through.
Namibia is no longer a safe place for our mothers, sisters, and female friends!
It is very frequent, that at any given juncture, law enforcing institutions will reiterate and emphasise the law to take its cause, especially for the gruesome killers. What happened to our laws? Are they protecting and respecting the lives of male perpetrators only?
A person caught smuggling a cigarette consignment worth of N$20 million, is hastily charged and slapped with more than half a million dollar bail. Yet, we have bail of a mere N$ 1000 for a brutal killer.
A bad image would have ripple effects to our marketing as a mecca of tourism, which is a significant arm of economic growth in this country.
Konstantinus Shuukwanyama
By email
Equally, Article 6 (Protection of life), Chapter 3 of the Constitution, states that “right to life shall be respected and be protected”. It further maintains that “no executions shall take place in Namibia”.
For a lack of a competent interpretation to the above, I would have hoped that protection and respect shall be ensured by the law, such that in an event of violation, severe measures shall be in place and be applied to retain and restore confidence of the nation in its constitution. And no executions shall take place in Namibia, would have meant, zero fatal and stringent actions shall be taken against perpetrators, swiftly.
In recent weeks, let alone past years, both print and televised media, have been fountains of saddening news of gruesome acts – women killed by men.
It is perturbing to note that a perpetrator who killed a child had been given bail and eventually killed a woman while on bail. It’s disheartening to hear that a four-year-old girl witnessed the brutal stabbing of her mother. This does not build a stable future for a woman at all, not to mention this child in particular. This child will grow up in fear, no matter how much counselling she goes through.
Namibia is no longer a safe place for our mothers, sisters, and female friends!
It is very frequent, that at any given juncture, law enforcing institutions will reiterate and emphasise the law to take its cause, especially for the gruesome killers. What happened to our laws? Are they protecting and respecting the lives of male perpetrators only?
A person caught smuggling a cigarette consignment worth of N$20 million, is hastily charged and slapped with more than half a million dollar bail. Yet, we have bail of a mere N$ 1000 for a brutal killer.
A bad image would have ripple effects to our marketing as a mecca of tourism, which is a significant arm of economic growth in this country.
Konstantinus Shuukwanyama
By email
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