Year: 2021

The most important issue in a mission is the element of word and action. 

Two-and-half million globally and 439 in Namibia (ca. 09/03/2021) - these aren’t just fancy Covid-19 numbers, these are counts of actual humans that have succumbed to the novel coronavirus. 

Transparent and effective government budgeting is vital to any democracy.

The urge to acquire postgraduate qualifications has become more aspiring now than before the dawn of independence in the history of the Namibian education system. 

The commemoration of International Women’s Day on 8 March, has come and gone.

A closer reflection and inquiry into Namibia basic education reform could deliver mixed reactions and leave more pertinent questions unanswered. 

Do the Namibian constitution and the law legally protect a sitting President such as President Hage Geingob, when baseless suggestions of corruption without any shred of evidence are made by the freedom of expression abusers such as The Namibian newspaper’s cartoonist Dudley?

In my article in this very same journal on 25 September yesteryear titled, ‘Love toward women should be the next pandemic’, I powerfully quoted Patricia Noah (Trevor Noah’s mother), who once said: “A man is not determined by how much he earns.

On the one hand, it recognizes the right of the individual to be afforded protection against harm to his reputation. On the other hand, it also recognises that the public has a right to free speech and proper access to information. 

No one seemingly took former health minister Bernard Haufiku seriously when he questioned the N$1 million budget of the Namibia University of Science and Technology earmarked for research.