Otjomuise- Kapenovandu mberi komanda ya 50 maveso oku worongana pamwe mena ro mutjise wotjindjumba ihi o Corona.
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2020-03-202024-05-06Business
Bank Windhoek implements Covid-19 preventative measures
In response to Namibia’s first confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases, Bank Windhoek has implemented preventative measures as part of its overall action plan to ensure the health and safety of its staff and clients at all its branches and departments countrywide.
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2020-03-202024-05-06Business
Access to affordable financing key for economic development – BoN
Certain national developmental agendas can only be achieved through public education and some of the crucial issues pertaining to this, according to the Bank of Namibia, are policies related to fees and charges at banks and financial institutions. Director of Payment and Settlement Systems at the central bank, Barbara Dreyer, said that access to affordable financial products and services is a key driver for economic development.
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2020-03-202024-05-06Business
GIPF sets aside N$25.9 billion to ensure benefit payments
The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) is aware of the outbreak of the coronavirus (Covid-19) and has taken the necessary precautions to protect its staff members by encouraging them to practice best hygienic methods such as washing their hands with soap regularly, applying alcohol-based hand sanitisers and wearing of protective gear such as masks and gloves where necessary.
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2020-03-202024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
30 years of Namibian independence shrouded in deep secrecy
On 21 March 2020, Namibia will clock 30 years of independence, shrouded in secrecy of torture and disappearances of many Namibians in Lubango dungeons of Angola. Many of the victims of this horrendous chapter in the Namibian liberation history were unfortunate for not accorded fair hearing and decent burials appropriate for heroes. Shockingly it has been a taboo to talk about those dark hours of the dungeons, as it would be opening old wounds.
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2020-03-202024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
While the Americans are building walls, the Chinese are building bridges
Walls and bridges represent different functional and symbolic meanings. Walls represent barriers and bridges stand for connection, opening and passage. Bridges are meant to connect people and places, whereas walls are meant to prevent/block entry by unwanted outsiders or even animals. The Berlin Wall was meant to separate the two former Germanys East and West because of the ideological divide of the time.
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2020-03-202024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Are Namibian workers a class for itself? A rejoinder to Whitaker, Boesak and Van Wyk (Part 2)
In an opinion piece published in the New Era newspaper of 6 March 2020, under the abovementioned title, the three gentlemen responded to my critique of their original piece (The Namibian, 20 December 2019). In their response, they showed respect and I return that courtesy.
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2020-03-202024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Namibia rising above corona
The invisible coronavirus has reached Namibian shores after leaving a trail of devastation in China, Europe and the world at large. In Namibia, priority should be on protecting lives and saving our economy. The main emphasis should be on containing and mitigating the disease itself. President Geingob demonstrated decisive leadership on managing Covid-19 and this offers hope to control its impact.
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2020-03-202024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
One country: Three nations
Now that we are celebrating 30 years of independence of our country it may be important to just briefly reflect on some issues of those years, particularly what still persistently and disturbingly are still haunting us.
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2020-03-202024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Let’s celebrate expansion in our education system
Today, when the young and the born-free, those born after Namibia’s independence in 1990, enrol at schools and institutions of their choices, little does it come to their minds that it was not as easy as that during the years of colonialism and apartheid. Today, black and white students enrol for degree programmes such as medicine, law, engineering, humanities, social sciences, pure sciences and education at higher education institutions without segregation. They do this at will depending on their passes at high school level.