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This headline loosely translates to ‘Comrade Nujoma, intensify the war to liberate Namibia’ – a song we sang in 1981 in Zimbabwe. As we celebrate the illustrious life of Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma, Namibia’s first president and founding father, I would like to share with the few encounters I had with this gallant freedom fighter and...
They persecuted him. They called him all sorts of bad names. Some coughed up phlegm and spat on him – especially those from the white monopoly capitalist community and many of his erstwhile comrades. Paradoxically, he was tried and convicted by the courts that used the same Roman-Dutch laws he had fiercely fought against during...
The resolute stance by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in demanding the immediate removal of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe was intensified last Friday at a public lecture held at a local hotel. At its 39th Summit held in Tanzania, the regional block set 25 October aside as the day on which SADC member states...
As the election campaigns hot up in the country, Elijah Ngurare’s Saturday speech at a Swapo rally in Sammora Machel constituency had all the ingredients of a moving, touching, and inspiring speech—one of the best speeches ever delivered so far in this election campaign. As the highly spirited Ngurare eloquently delivered his speech as the...
The higher education landscape in Namibia is poised for greater heights and transformation for the better taking into account the high quality of research papers that were presented by researchers at the second conference of the Association of Private Higher Education Institutions in Namibia (APHEIN) held at the International University of Management last week. The...
The story of the young girl Alisa Amupolo, now Dr Amupolo as of last week after she graduated from the University of Namibia with a Doctor of Business Administration degree, will make you emotional if you were to listen to it being told by her mother. I was privileged to attend Dr Amupolo’s graduation celebration...
Progressive forces have described China’s dream through the Belt andRoad Initiative in Africa and Africa’s dream through the African Union’s Agenda 2063 as complementary. The Belt and Road Initiative projects in Africa have primarily assisted the continent to realise some of the seven developmental aspirations of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, leading to what has...
A lot of positive and negative things have been said about the presence of Chinese inthis country, and in other African countries. It is true that Chinese nationals are ubiquitous in Africa, almost in all sectors of the economy. Many localpeople do not always understand the reasons of the presence of the Chinese nationals in...
When I read the novella ‘Animal Farm’, written by George Orwel (real name Eric Arthur Blair) when I was 14 years old (no wonder the love of literature I have), I thought it was just a fable of animals and their owner, Mr Jones of Manor Farm.
In what has come as a big shock and shameful act in academia and the society locally, some easily excitable students have started using the title “Dr” prematurely, just after registering for their doctoral studies, which would take them three to four years, or even more, to complete.