Month: July 2021

South African company Tiger Brands is recalling some 20 million KOO and Hugo’s canned vegetable products produced between 1 May 2019 to 5 May 2021. 

Significant increases in food production over the 20th century have contributed to the improvement of many farmers’ livelihoods and to economic growth. However, the distribution of benefits from increased agricultural output has been inequitable.

One late evening, I was half asleep – but suddenly, I could hear someone whispering at my window, saying: ‘We regret that we have implemented socialism’.

I fully concur with the sentiments expressed in the opinion piece of 22 July 2021 in The Namibian by Prof. Andre du Pisani, a renowned intellectual giant of our time, not a fake or non-intellectual pseudo political analyst – a person whose name I first heard at a very tender age when he was at the South Africa Institute of Race Relations in the 1970s and then met him personally at our University o

The fight for youth empowerment is equally important as that of equal gender representation within the Namibian sector. 

Thank you for availing me the opportunity to clarify some issues pertaining to Oshindonga as a medium of instruction (MoI) in Omusati region as alleged in the article, titled ‘Oshindonga as a Medium of Instruction in Omusati’ by Shifela Johannes and Wapota Jonas. 

The Covid-19 pandemic is undoubtedly a universal crisis. However, as Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”. Hence the question: How is Namibia ensuring that the Covid-19 crisis is not going to waste? Differently put, what are some of the instructive lessons from the Covid-19 crisis that should not be let to waste?  

The board’s responsibility to the organisation and the responsibility of top managers’ responsibility to the board are not understood. Some board members understand their fiduciary duties, whereas others do not understand these duties. 

The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck’s last novel, published in 1961. Steinbeck was an American novelist and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner.

Pan African Women’s Day (PAWD) is observed each year on 31 July to commemorate the First Pan African Women’s Conference, held in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1962. The theme of the 59th anniversary of PAWD is “financial inclusion of women, challenges and opportunities”.