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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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NEWS - AFRICA
| 2013-08-02
South Africa is a ‘friendly’ nation - Zuma by
Johannesburg – Despite “isolated” incidents of violence against foreigners, South Africa’s general population is a friendly and welcoming, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.
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LETTERS -
| 2013-08-02
Red Star Cap Not Enough by
WHY is it that people change from being socialists at heart to becoming hard-nosed capitalists soon after they get into powerful positions?
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OPINIONS - COLUMNS
| 2013-08-02
‘Ninja’ Microfinance Can Dent Poverty by
Job Amupanda
AS I write this article, I am in Kenya analysing the Kenyan microfinance for youth development. I make no reference to the discovery that drinking water from the tap in Kenya is done at own peril. I have also not decided which is the most delicious between Kenya’s ‘Nyamachoma’ and Namibia’s ‘Kapana’. Kenya cutting ministries from 44 to 18 is also not discussed herein for there shall be another time for that.
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OPINIONS - COLUMNS
| 2013-08-02
Political Perspective by
IT SPEAKS to the priorities of our Government to learn that Cabinet’s current preoccupation seems to be the lucrative pay packages of parastatal chiefs rather than the predicament that hundreds of thousands of Namibians find themselves in poverty as a result of rampant unemployment and adverse socio-economic conditions.
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BUSINESS - ECONOMY
| 2013-08-01
World Bank mobilises record support for Africa by
THE World Bank Group committed a record US$14,7 billion in the 2013 fiscal year to support economic growth and better development prospects in Africa despite uncertain economic conditions in the rest of the global economy.
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BUSINESS - CONSUMER
| 2013-08-01
Growing unemployment spells trouble for deeply indebted consumers by
South Africa’s low and middle income groups are bearing the brunt of the slowdown in the economy and with more than 25% of the workforce being unemployed, unsecured lending has for many become the only means of survival.
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NEWS - AFRICA
| 2013-08-01
Outcry over Kenya US$30m party by
NAIROBI - A government proposal to spend nearly US$30 million celebrating the country’s 50th year of independence is causing an outcry among civil society groups who say the country does not have any reason to celebrate let alone the means to do it.
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NEWS - AFRICA
| 2013-07-30
SA Society split into hostile camps by
JOHANNESBURG – President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday he believed that South African society had split into hostile camps.
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NEWS - NAMIBIA
| 2013-07-30
Overcoming violence through love by Nomhle Kangootui
SIMONE Karukuo (16) recounts how she was forced to live in an orphanage at the tender age of 11, even though she was not an orphan but had simply been abandoned by her mother who was physically abused by Simone’s stepfather at the time.
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NEWS - AFRICA
| 2013-07-30
Tsvangirai again a thorn in Mugabe’s side by
HARARE - Tomorrow Morgan Tsvangirai will get his third crack at dethroning veteran Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.
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SPORT - FOOTBALL
| 2013-07-30
Chan promotions lagging behind: LOC by
WITH just over five months before South Africa hosts the 2014 African Nations Championship (Chan), local organising committee (LOC) CEO Mvuzo Mbebe said they were lagging behind in promoting the tournament.
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HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS -
| 2013-07-30
Intellectual Conversation by
There are days I crave for intellectual conversation.
Where my mind manufactures lengthy words,
in the hope that somebody understands it.
I get this powerful sensation,
an adrenalin rush to my brain.
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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.
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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?
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LETTERS -
| 2013-07-26
Forge New Camaraderie by
AFTER an absence of 34 years, I returned to Namibia this winter. I have been travelling within the country here and there, north, central and south renewing old friendships and acquiring new ones.
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