Year: 2021

It is said that the Swapo Party’s capacity and will to fight back has been severely weakened by ego-based internal conflicts in the lead up to the 2012 and 2017 elections for the vice president and party president positions. 

In South Africa, it is estimated that 100 women are raped every day, and 33% of married women are beaten by their husbands, 10% of young girls are sexually harassed in their families and only 1.3% of men who rape women are ever convicted or charged

The national airline of the Land of the Brave has its roots since the year 1946 nearly 75 years ago. Despite circumstances that warrant the cabinet decision to liquidate the airline, this came as a thorny welcome to the Namibian public coupled with long-term economic risks and injuries to the country. 

In recognition of the existence and the significant importance of human rights, the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948 adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The unfolding humanitarian crisis in the north, which has seen Angolan nationals flocking to Namibia in search of food and job opportunities, is very sad. 

The law should be understood as a shaping tool used in carving the aspirations of a country. Economic law reform should therefore be on the agenda to ensure that future generations have effective laws that are applicable and relevant.

My younger brother, Mr Paul T. Shipale published an opinion piece in the New Era newspaper of 19th March 2021, titled “On the debate on nation-building.” In the same opinion piece, Mr Shipale “invited” me to “olupale” in Oshikwanyama or “orupare” in Otjiherereo. Loosely translated into English, olupale or orupare means platform.

On 18 March 2021, President Hage Geingob unveiled government’s Plan of Action Towards Economic Recovery and Inclusive Growth – the Harambee Prosperity Plan II, with attendant Economic Recovery Programme.

The fact that more men than women die due to HIV means that women are doing better at getting tested and going on treatment. 

Home affairs minister Frans Kapofi said the ministry cannot issue emergency travel documents to twin daughters of fathers Phillip Lühl and Guillermo Delgado, born through surrogacy in South Africa, when legal issues pertaining to the children’s paternity are yet to be resolved.