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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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What do you think of the renaming and addition of regions and constituencies?

1. Long overdue

2. A waste of money

3. We have bigger issues

4. I don't care


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   SPORT - GENERAL | 2013-08-07
Junior hockey shows strong growth by Helge Schutz
THE Namibia Hockey Union’s Junior Development League was concluded last week when the prize- giving ceremony took place at the Doc Jubber Hockey Fields in Windhoek.

The development league has shown rapid growth over the past few years, with close to 700 children from seven schools in Windhoek participating in this year’s league - a number that has risen from originally 300 children in 2009. Read more...

   OPINIONS - COLUMNS | 2013-08-07
Should Corpses Litter The Street? by
ZIMBABWEANS went to the polls last week in ‘harmonised’ elections, which resulted in nothing but discord. So no joy or harmony from these ‘harmonised’ elections then? Read more...

   NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-08-06
Pohamba calls on West to remove Zim sanctions by Shinovene Immanuel
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba has called on the West to remove the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe following the re-election of President Robert Mugabe last week. Read more...

   NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-08-06
New union in trouble by Ndanki Kahiurika
A NEWLY registered union is struggling to gain ground after alleged failure to follow correct procedures when it was set up. Read more...

   NEWS - INTERNATIONAL | 2013-08-06
5 Cuban ‘prisoners of conscience’ - Amnesty by
HAVANA – Amnesty International designated five Cubans detained on the island as “prisoners of conscience” on Sunday and called for their immediate release. Read more...

   NEWS - INTERNATIONAL | 2013-08-06
Australia joins UK, US, urges Zim poll re-run by
CAPE TOWN – Australia which suspended sanctions against Zimbabwe to help encourage “free and fair” elections has added its voice to international concerns on voting in last week’s elections, calling for the election to be re-run, according to a newzimbabwe.com report. Read more...

   NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-08-05
Zimbabwe’s MDC struggles for survival by
•STELLA MAPENZAUSWA

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change Tsvangirai (MDC-T) party, shocked by its overwhelming election defeat, has a battle on its hands to convince supporters it has any chance of taking power in the years to come. Read more...

   NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-08-05
MDC to challenge vote in court by
HARARE - Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will challenge in court an election victory by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party which the MDC rejects as a fraud, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Saturday. Read more...

   NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-08-05
Conciliatory tones in Egypt by
CAIRO - Egypt’s army-backed rulers and allies of its deposed Islamist president gave the first signs of a readiness to compromise on Saturday, pressed by Western envoys trying to head off more bloodshed. Read more...

   BUSINESS - GENERAL | 2013-08-02
Inflation rates in SACU member states below 10% by
WINDHOEK – Namibia and Botswana topped the list of Southern African Customs’ Union (SACU) member states when it came to high inflation rates in May this year. Read more...

   NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-08-02
African delegation meets Egypt’s Morsi by
CAIRO – A high-level African Union mission met with Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi, in the Islamist leader’s second meeting with international diplomats this week after nearly a month in secret detention, the head of the delegation said yesterday. Read more...

   LETTERS - | 2013-08-02
Regrading Will Fail by
THE article titled “Mbako urges civil servants to be patient” [The Namibian, 22 July 2013] refers. Nangula Mbako, Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, is treating the concerns of the civil servants as a mere joke and one can see that the regrading structure was not done with good intentions but to score points for the upcoming elections. Read more...

   OPINIONS - COLUMNS | 2013-08-02
Monogamy Not About Romance by
Gwynne Dyer

PERHAPS we should just agree that we are an imperfectly pair-bonding species. Quite imperfectly – I am on my second marriage, and so is my wife – but the point is that we do form pairs: 89 percent of the world’s people get married before the age of forty-nine. Read more...

   NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-08-02
Northern Namibia experiences man-made drought by Ndanki Kahiurika
NAMIBIA’s densely populated North is said to be experiencing a man-made drought, which reportedly came as a result of land mismanagement by farmers who overstocked during rainy seasons. Read more...

   OPINIONS - COLUMNS | 2013-08-02
A Filthy News Week by
Zimbabwe's election isn't the only good thing that happened in the world this week. Read more...

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