* POLITICS seems to defeat all logic. Even a party that keeps scoring zero votes has the audacity to proclaim that it is geared to unseat the ruling party. It is sad that such parties will still have staunch supporters who...[more]
* FELLOW Namibians please take note that elections are not about which political party wins but whether you win by voting for a certain political party. Elections are about what benefit we individuals will get by voting for a...[more]
* THE Government wants the SME sector to grow, but they take two months or longer to pay small amounts, but require prompt service. The Government is killing my business as without prompt payments no other business will assist...[more]
* FOR any country to get ahead, the ruling party needs a strong opposition. And it is something African countries are failing to understand.[more]
* SAVING lives. Thanks for the great job at the roadblock on the B1 by inspecting cars’ tyres, hooters, lights and brakes. Viva officers.[more]
* IN the beginning there was one Namibia and one nation. Today there is one Namibia, half a nation. Do we have no-go zones in Namibia? Please let us unite like one man’s children.[more]
* POLITICIANS of political parties who claim to support democracy, but then encourage violence and physical confrontation against any opposition, do they understand what democracy means? These individuals should be reprimanded...[more]
* TRIBALISM is killing us. Stop thinking tribal, start thinking national. Learn from Rwanda. Let’s build this nation without looking at our village roots but at our national roots.[more]
* ‘TERMS and Conditions apply’. What an idiotic phrase, and it appears in almost every advert. But it is almost impossible to find out what these conditions actually are! Like all these SMS lotteries, where the operators are...[more]
* WE definitely need a Commission of Reconciliation for politicians before this November election. The fact that Namibian politicians are either hating and/or are not on speaking terms makes them a threat to peace and stability....[more]
n ALL Namibians, regardless of which political party you belong to, must seriously fight against corruption. Donors, even those funding ARVs, food for drought relief, roads etc, may pull out. After all, it will be the poor people...[more]
SMS Of The Day * WHY is it, when Government constructs a road, clinic, school, you name them and we, the public, have to thank and praise the specific ministry for doing it. Isn’t it the job we elected them to do? And isn’t it...[more]
* Nurses must stay alone in the nurses home. Relatives must stay at home. Nurses must visit them when off duty. There is a visitor`s room when visitors come to the nurses home.[more]
* RACISM was painful during the apartheid era, but we found consolation and strength in the fact that we blacks were fighting a common enemy and would prevail one day. Ethnicity today is far worse and my heart bleeds. From...[more]
* YES, the elephants were here first. I wonder whether we don’t have commercial or plastic conservationists who advise Government to cull, hunt or auction off wildlife. We don’t need fair and equitable land reforms for humans...[more]
* THE art of public speaking is dying a natural death in Namibia. Many public speakers lack the ability to captivate the audience and communicate their ideas with passion, force and power to enable listeners to understand the...[more]
* OUR country’s education and progress has stalled because the state is not using mass communication for development but propaganda, eg NBC and New Era. People don’t need to celebrate plans, we need to know the results, learn...[more]
* THE ECN’s varying figures of the estimated voters, including the erroneous unregistered deaths, for the Nov ‘09 elections, smack of a trick used in semi and state service to deliberately misinterpret policies and democratic...[more]
* WE deal with them on a daily basis. During winter and summer you find them at busy street corners selling newspapers. Such a reliable person was the vendor at the corner of Jordan and Tunschel streets (in Pionierspark). I don’t...[more]
* THE piece on suicide by Reverend J Lucas should be translated and spread all over Namibia to all its citizens as a matter of urgency![more]