Different stakeholders in the sphere of labour activities have encouraged Namibia to ratify the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention related to violence and harassment in the world of work in order to address, prevent and subsequently eliminate such practices in the workplace.
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2020-03-132024-05-06Business
Coronavirus delays completion of N$5.5 billion storage facility
Construction of the N$5.5 billion national oil storage facility at Walvis Bay, which was anticipated to be completed last month, is now at a standstill because of the global outbreak of coronavirus as the main contractors are Chinese who could not return to Namibia for final testing of the facility.
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2020-03-132024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Namibia unite against youth tribalism
Last week Saturday, large groups of manifestly one tribal youth sections upped the game by demanding the immediate stepping down of President Hage Geingob, in a tribal manner which left no doubt that they are a tribal grouping seeking the ouster of a democratically elected leader simply because he is not of their origin.
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2020-03-132024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Are you a feminist?
Ideally, we are living in a time where awareness about gender equality is at the focal point of almost every debate. We are not short of ideas and institutions that advocate for the leverage of equality among human beings of all nature. In fact, a democratic country like Namibia is never a disgrace to its people especially women and human right remains its first priority. Meanwhile, the issue of feminism is still puzzling inquisitive minds, and we often reject being feminist consciously or unconsciously.
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2020-03-132024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Working definitions of disability
Grönvik, in his work on definition of disability in the social sciences displays a photograph of a body, with the person’s head and face cut off, in a wheelchair at the bottom of a flight of stairs, and then proceeds to explain that the photography could be seen to reflect no less than five conceptions of disability.
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2020-03-132024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
‘Rise, take your mat and walk’… Namibian women prayer for Zimbabwe a resounding success
March 7 2020 will go into the annals of the history of Zimbabwe as a special day when women all over the world prayed for the woes this beautiful southern African country is facing to come to an end. It was therefore befitting and in line for Namibian women to organize a prayer for Zimbabwe at the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Khomasdal, Windhoek last Saturday.
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2020-03-132024-05-07Letters
Namibia at 30: A critical point of departure for the future
The majority of Namibians are young people, and these young people are brimming with high amounts of energy and hopes for a better future.
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2020-03-132024-05-07Letters
Opinion – Swapo a brand name to be or not after Fishrot saga
Swapo Party constitution gave rights to its members to express themselves and articulate their opinions in the interests of betterment of the party and membership
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2020-03-132024-05-07Letters
Opinion – An attack on Geingob is an attack on the State
The recent attempts to oust democratically elected President Dr Hage Geingob have reference.
The AR has launched a programme of action throughout Namibia to oust the Namibian government, yet all the state institutions and offices accept these actions as constitutional and as part of democracy.
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2020-03-132024-05-07Letters
Namibian faces intergenerational crisis
“O Lord help us who roam about. Help us who have been placed in Africa and have no dwelling place of our own. Give us back our home,” reads an excerpt from a prayer that Chief Hosea Kutako wrote to the United Nations with Rev. Michael Scott in 1945.