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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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NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-07-30
RDP concerned about taxi strike by
THE Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) has expressed concern about the negative effects the ongoing strike by hundreds of taxi drivers has on commuters.

NEWS - INTERNATIONAL | 2013-07-30
EU visits as Egypt’s crisis deepens by
CAIRO - Egypt’s political crisis deepened on Sunday, with supporters of the ousted president defiant as the National Defence Council warned it would take “decisive and firm” action if protesters overstepped.

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NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-07-29
Tsvangirai warns Mugabe not to steal vote by
CHINHOYI - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday warned President Robert Mugabe not to “steal” a crunch vote this week, so that his veteran rival could exit office with dignity.

NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-07-29
Mandela still critical after reported op by
JOHANNESBURG - The presidency said yesterday that Nelson Mandela was still critically ill in hospital but improving slightly, declining to comment on a report the anti-apartheid hero had undergone an operation.

NEWS - INTERNATIONAL | 2013-07-29
Egypt police shoot Morsi supporters dead by
CAIRO - Egyptian police shot dead 23 supporters of Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi and wounded hundreds more in Cairo early on Saturday, a Muslim Brotherhood leader said.

SPORT - ATHLETICS | 2013-07-29
Nambala wins gold in Lyon by Helge Schutz
Johannes Nambala made history by winning a gold medal at the IPC World Championships in Lyon, France on Saturday when he came first in the Men’s T13 400m final.

In a close race, Nambala won a sprint to the line in a new championship record time of 49,07 seconds to win the gold medal, ahead of Alexander Zverev of Russia who won silver in 49,26 and Luis Galano of Cuba who won bronze in 49,52.

NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-07-26
No privacy at Usakos clinic by Adam Hartman
ALMOST six months after the Presidential inquiry into the health care in Namibia expressed concerns about a ‘clinic’ housed in a community hall at Usakos, health workers continue operating from the premises.

NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-07-26
Egypt’s government imposes toughest Gaza restrictions by
GAZA CITY – Egypt’s new government has imposed the toughest border restrictions on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in years, sealing smuggling tunnels, blocking most passenger traffic and causing millions of dollars in economic losses.

NEWS - INTERNATIONAL | 2013-07-26
Calls for calm after cabinet sacked by
JUBA – Heavily armed South Sudanese security forces guarded key government institutions in the capital Juba on Wednesday, as radio broadcasts called for calm after the president suspended his cabinet and his main political rival.

OPINIONS - EDITORIALS | 2013-07-26
The Great Disconnect – Education by
ONE step forward: The Namibian President, Hifikepunye Pohamba, officially launched a brilliant concept of schools of excellence this week. They call them ‘vision schools’. Omake! A loud round of applause, indeed!

OPINIONS - COLUMNS | 2013-07-26
An Aimless Blind Quest For Knowledge by
Alexactus T Kaure

IN 2010 six African countries made it to the World Cup in South Africa. Zambia has just hosted a successful Cosafa Cup competition. This week Namibia hosts the 44th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting. These are to be applauded. But they get overshadowed by other dramatic political events taking place on the continent.

OPINIONS - COLUMNS | 2013-07-26
The Rehabilitation of Robert Mugabe by
Gwynne Dyer

ROBERT Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, is now 89 years old but he is running for another five-year term in the elections on 31 July. Perhaps his optimism is justified, given that his mother died at 100, but why is he doing it? More importantly, why is the ruling party, Zanu-PF, still backing him as its presidential candidate, considering that he has spent the past decade as an international pariah?

OPINIONS - COLUMNS | 2013-07-26
Opposition must get real by
We’ll become the next government.” A bold but laughable statement by every new fly-by-night wannabe political party who decides to register with the Electoral Commission of Namibia.