Abortion may be a sensitive and complex matter. The current conversation engulfing our nation on abortion is pivotal and necessary as it widens our perspectives and requires us to question our beliefs, ideologies and values we operate from. Nevertheless, we explore the role of a therapist in the conversation of abortion. As mental health professionals,...
Last week I shared to social media – WhatsApp and Facebook, a video of me dancing, and a male friend felt the need to reply to my WhatsApp status “Hold on, is she not married?” Insinuating that because I am married I should not be dancing. Am I supposed to act a certain way? I...
Shashamene Zuria – Girma had no choice but to watch from afar as a crowd chanting “This is our place!” set fire to the school he founded more than a decade ago. Though he has lived his whole life in Shashamene, a fast-growing town in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, Girma’s parents are not members of the...
Omulumenhu omunamido 22 okwa hangwa a endjelela mokadolongo omo h mu tulwa pakafimbo ovanadolongo ovo va yuka momhangu. Oshiningwanima eshi osha ningilwa komhangulilo yaMangestalata koGrootfontein. Nakufya oye Desmond Khairabeb.Khairabeb okwa kwatelwe po mEtitatu molwaashi a dopa oku liufa komalombwelo a li e a pewa momhangu oyo tuu oyo, sha landula oshikoya shoku ehamaka omunhu kolutu...
Patna – One of India’s most impoverished states went into lockdown yesterday, but near-normal traffic on Bihar’s streets showed the difficulty of corralling over 125 million people. The lockdown in the northern state bordering Nepal started as India reported more than 600 deaths in the previous 24 hours, and the Red Cross warned the virus...
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...