Author: Prof Makala Lilemba (Prof Makala Lilemba )

There is no broad definition of the concept ‘profession’ that has been offered or universally accepted by scholars. 

In 1990, there was euphoria of achieving nationhood after many years of oppression and racial discrimination from the South African government. 

Over the centuries, there have been debates over the most important component in the didactic situation. Firstly, it was believed that the subject matter was the central focus in the teaching-learning situation. 

According to Kerr and Kelly (1999), a simple definition of curriculum is all the learning which is planned and guided by the school, whether it is carried on either in groups or individually, inside or outside the school.

In his inaugural speech address to the American nation on 20 January 1961, the young president-elect, John F. Kennedy, and the thirty-fifth president of the United States of America, ushered a usual quoted statement by many scholars and politicians alike. 

The General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 November 1989 adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child which was ratified and signed by sixty-one countries. 

Namibia again celebrated its Constitution Day on 9 February, as it does every year since 1990, clocking 32 years of nationhood.

The year 2021 will be remembered in Namibia’s examination annals as one in which the grade 11 examination timetable was set aside and the whole examination cancelled due to examination leaks.

With globalisation, the world is to wrestle with the impact of information explosion. This ignites debates among academicians and researchers in discerning credible researched information. 

The youth are ushered in the New Year with the presidential warning issued on 2 December 2021 at a youth engagement event at State House that government is not God to create jobs. This means that the youth should therefore start creating jobs themselves instead of looking up to government.