The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) recently announced it would add a weekly Ju/’Hoansi TV news bulletin to its schedule of indigenous languages. Ju/’Hoansi is one of the San languages spoken in Namibia. Although that initiative needs to be highly appreciated,…

I recently went to the ministry of home affairs to apply for my full birth certificate. Outside I ran into a former member of parliament (MP) I had not seen in ages. He had applied for a new passport the…

Namibia has lost a reliable friend for all seasons in engineer Vasilije Boskovic. Boskovic, who was born in the former Yugoslavia, had a long-standing relationship with Namibia, which spanned over six decades, until his death on 4 July. His relationship…