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Ten years ago, Tobie Aupindi, then a businessman before he became a Member of Parliament, had a prediction of the future of the youth inside Swapo. He concluded that the future Swapo Party Youth League leadership will have no choice but to be docile given what had happened to our militant and radical leadership. At...
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Imagine, a week after the 27 November elections, and Namibians have elected their president. When the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) announced the results, the president-elect is chilled at Omaalala. Will the State rush to the village to guard the president-in-waiting? If so, will this be done for four months until 21 March 2025? Through...
It will all become clear in the fullness of time, as they say.
The concept of ‘original sin’ became more pronounced in the Christian doctrine in the 16th century, where it was argued that human beings are born with some urge to commit evil or disobey God.
How does Jamaica, a small island 70 times smaller than Namibia and without major minerals, manage to get things right?
In 2006, I enrolled for my first degree at the University of Namibia. The Dean of Students was current higher education minister Itah Kandjii-Murangi. Because of my high school student leadership background, I took keen interest in student politics. In that year, there was a thorny issue of compulsory breakfast, where the university charged students even when they did not eat breakfast.