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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 - INTERNATIONAL | 2013-08-12
Somali Islamists steal aid by
LONDON - Members of the Shebab Islamist group have stolen US$750 000 worth of British government-funded humanitarian materials and supplies in Somalia, it emerged yesterday.

NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
Govt to build 10 000 houses countrywide by Hileni Nembwaya
GOVERNMENT through the Ministry of Regional, Local Government, Housing and Rural Development (MRLGHRD) has plans to build more than 10,000 houses in informal settlements within the next 16 months.

2013-08-12

PiOnEEr ... A scene from ‘Cairo Station’. Hailed at the time for ushering in a new era of Arabic cinema, filmmaker Youssef Chahine stars in this melodrama of poverty and sexual frustration – one that shocked Arab audiences in the 1950s.

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BUSINESS - COMPANIES | 2013-08-09
ICT can address extreme poverty by
WINDHOEK – The development of public infrastructure, including ICT infrastructure, will contribute towards addressing extreme poverty and enable industries to perform at the required level of output.

LETTERS - | 2013-08-09
No Time And Energy? by
IN YOUR ‘Letter of the week’ of Friday 2 August 2013, the writer wrote about the investment of time and effort to lay the foundation of a new movement in the form of a political party for the poor in our country. You, dear editor, reacted very sceptically. You reminded us that the poor amongst us do not have the time and energy to organise themselves because of their daily fight to simply stay alive.

LETTERS - | 2013-08-09
Telecom’s New ‘Trojan Horse’ by
COMMUNICATION is of the highest importance in any democracy; without communication democracy fails. Because Telecom is not a private business, this axiom should apply to it, too.

OPINIONS - COLUMNS | 2013-08-09
Angels’ death cannot be blamed on mothers alone by
Jacqueline W Asheeke

RECENTLY, there were two tragic shack fires in which several very young children died. The immediate response has been to arrest and lay charges against the two young mothers who were off somewhere drinking in a shebeen while their babies were dying in the flames.

OPINIONS - COLUMNS | 2013-08-09
Political Perspective by
IF WE really want to give national meaning to the concept of Heroes Day, then we must not exclusively associate it with the war of liberation and the sacrifice of Plan combatants any longer.

NEWSMAKERS - | 2013-08-09
Africa’s Urban Challenge by
My mother, like her mother, her grandmother, and so on, was born into poverty in the rural village of Rarieda, Kenya. I, too, was born in the village, and lived there until it was struck by a brutal famine when I was two years old.

BUSINESS - CONSUMER | 2013-08-08
Are GMOs the solution to food insecurity? by
Scientists worry about whether the world’s population is increasing faster than our ability to feed ourselves.

NEWS - ENVIRO | 2013-08-08
Understanding the value of drylands by
DESERTIFICATION is largely driven by the expansion of agricultural land and in drylands, 12 million hectares of land is lost every year due to desertification, says the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-08-07
Many Zimbabweans reluctant to go home by
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabweans in South Africa received the re-election of President Robert Mugabe with mixed reactions, with the majority reluctant to return to their country.

NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-08-07
LPO to celebrate 50th annivesary by Clemans Miyanicwe
AS part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, the Livestock Producers Organisation (LPO) which is an affiliate of the Namibia Agricultural Union, will hold a conference at the Safari Hotel in Windhoek in early October.

NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-08-06
NamWater, Rehoboth reach debt agreement by Luqman Cloete
THE Rehoboth Town Council has reached an agreement with bulk water supplier, NamWater, over a debt of about N$35 million that could have led to the disconnection of water supplies to the town.

BUSINESS - ECONOMY | 2013-08-05
Big rewards beckon in Angola, but little transparency by
LISBON – Hot to tap into Angola’s booming oil economy for over a decade, foreign investors are finally seeing the country open up new financial avenues. But will woeful transparency and corruption thwart them?

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