Whoever said that laughter is the best medicine clearly never tried to crack a joke in Namibia without being tackled by a crowd armed with Facebook, X statuses and Biblical verses. “How dare you laugh when people are suffering?” they’ll…

One brave, anonymous member of parliament (MP) recently committed the unthinkable: They voted with their brain. Sowaar. Instead of blindly toeing the party line like a good little card-carrying member, this shadowy rebel allegedly voted in favour of an opposition…

I want you to imagine this with me quickly. It is Sunday morning in the Vatican City. Pilgrims arrives from all corners of the globe, rosaries in hand, hearts full of faith. But today, they are greeted not with the…

So apparently, the University of Namibia (Unam) is out here respectfully begging for bodies. Yes, you read that right, they need actual corpses. Cadavers. Not donations, not school shoes, not blood. Corpses for scientific study. For the noble cause of…

Last year, the government, in a rare burst of decision-making, declared that taxi permits would now only be valid for two years. Revolutionary stuff. The kind of governance that makes you sit back and say, “Wow, we’re really tackling the…

Recently, Namibians once again exercised their right to debate non-issues. This time, it was whether intelligence, hustle and beauty disqualify women from ministerial posts or even citizenship. Just as we thought we’d exhausted our brain cells, in walked a lawyer,…

Have you ever wondered why every minister seems to fail in our eyes as Namibians? We love to say they failed, but do we ever stop to ask why? Is it really possible that across multiple administrations, every single one…

The story goes that, for more than 20 years, honourable Lukato Lukato had three loyal companions: Wandei, Hona, and Rubble. Every morning, he would feed them, pat their heads, and remind them: “One day, my friends, one day.” Now, to…

Congratulations, honourable members-to-be! You have made it to parliament, the grandest stage of political theatre, where the actors are well-paid, the scripts are improvised, and the plot never thickens. Before you take your oath and settle into your plush seats,…

If there’s one thing more fragile than a Namibian politician’s ego, it’s that same ego wrapped in a defamation lawsuit. Imagine a proud public figure slides into the High Court, clutching a bruised reputation like a child holding a broken…

One might think that Namibian artists possess a special ability to compose, record and produce tracks at lightning speed, possibly writing verses while the doctors are still checking for a pulse on the deceased. Studios must have an ‘In Case…