If agriculture could enjoy the attention it deserves, the country could not have experienced the Kayova and other incidences where people died due to hunger.
Year: 2023
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Opinion – Namibian government overspending continues
In my last opinion piece, I wrote about the role of the advisor to our government leaders, with the sole aim to clarify on their key role in helping the country to make cost saving decisions.
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Opinion – Walking free from the Windhoek maximum security prison
After more than two decades of incarceration, another batch of eight alleged secessionists were freed on Friday, 1 December 2023 to the joyous reunion with their families.
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Opinion – Local skills development critical to mining
The political landscape around mining in Africa is changing, and the traditional model of employing and recruiting expats to senior levels of management is beginning to fall away.
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Opinion – Volunteerism a means to an end for the Namibian Youth
Volunteerism is the process of working and offering services to an institution without the expectation of remunerations. A volunteer is a person who intentionally and willingly contributes to the right course of the community in need and the state at large.
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Letter – Project management’s critical role
The environment in which we live is created, enhanced and maintained by civil engineers. Roads, trains, airports, bridges, harbours, dams, irrigation projects, power plants and sewage systems are just a few examples of the infrastructure and building structures they plan, design and supervise during construction and upkeep.
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Letter – Unpacking the role of academics in Namibia
Since the attainment of independence from the apartheid South African colonial regime in 1990, Namibia has made strides in safeguarding its democratic principles and values.
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Editorial – Net zero needs nuclear power
For some of the world’s leading nuclear physicists, it remains mind-boggling how Namibia, as one of the most significant uranium producers, is still stuck in a perpetual energy deficit that forces it to constantly import electricity from neighbouring countries.
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Know your civil servant – Minutes, visitors, duplicating and tonnes of fun …the life of a school administrator
Not everyone working on the school grounds is an educator. Some are simply there to make the teachers’ work easier; to streamline their work, and
ease the burden of their sometimes-weary souls.
