Ede – “Strong people don’t put others down – they lift them up.” So says the discreet sign at the entrance to one of the most remarkable research facilities in Africa. Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) has been at the forefront in...
Patrick Smith Last Sunday, Namibians witnessed another high-level display of unmatched accountability and transparency, when President Hage Geingob led the Swapo Party to account on the Fishrot saga in a live streamed and broadcasted address to the Namibian nation. Undoubtedly, the Fishrot saga in which Namibia lost billions of dollars via the greedy Icelandic Fishing...
Shoki Kandjimi Cecilia Iyambo Residents of Mutengo Mukuro village located 10 kilometres East of Rundu have pleaded with the government to intervene in their quest to have their water tank connected to a nearby water reservoir so that they could have access to clean water. This follows an incident where the Directorate of Rural...
Robin Tyson In both Namibia and South Africa, the print media is under strain. In South Africa, the publishers of Bona, Rooi Rose and Your Family have closed, and media giants such as Naspers have announced the closure of magazines such as Men’s Health and Runner’s World, affecting over 1 000 jobs. Other venerable magazines...
The global Covid-19 pandemic has made us live in unprecedented times. The new realities of compulsory wearing of face masks in public places and keeping a physical distance from other human beings are new norms which we are slowly getting used to but scary at the same time. The current rapid increase of the spread...
Leaders are those who connect the dots. Equally, youth entrepreneurship in Africa will be driven by the young minds who have the ability to connect the dots. With so many challenges stemming from issues of ineffective governance, lack of infrastructure (both soft and hard) and most importantly lack of funding instruments for entrepreneurship, being a...
For the past several years, we have been living under the illusion that, after the colonial sunset, we had crossed that historic bridge from inequality to equality, conflict to absolute peace, and from poverty to prosperity. The nation was hopeful at the dawn of independence that we were shaping a society grounded in common citizenship...
It is quite interesting that political parties usually take a strong stance against corruption when presenting their manifestos to the electorate every five years when general elections come around. There is no doubt that corruption, in different forms and dimensions, has seriously infiltrated many spheres of our society. It has impacted mainly the poor, and...
KEETMANSHOOP – A Keetmanshoop family of 11 on Tuesday received a fully-furnished brick house from a construction company after their shack burned down over a week ago. On 4 July, the family lost all their belongings after a fire broke out at their shack in the Ileni informal settlement. Talking about the fateful day, Sarah...
Lorato Khobetsi-Slinger The Road Authority will invest over N$1 billion in the Hardap region in the next three years, through the upgrading and rehabilitation of major roads, as part of ongoing projects to be implemented for the 2020/2021 financial year. The projects include the phase 1 of rehabilitation and widening of the B1 road between...