In the physical world, boundaries are easy to see. Fences, signs, walls, moats with alligators and hedges are all physical boundaries.
Author: Reverend Jan Scholtz (Reverend Jan Scholtz )
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Opinion – What a happy life? Count your blessings
A philosopher friend remarked recently: “God must really love unhappy people, otherwise He wouldn’t have made so many of them”.
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Opinion – The importance of the church in nation building
Namibia emerging from a traumatic past, and the process of rebuilding the nation is not going to be an easy one. The church in my opinion has a very important role to play in the whole process of reconstruction and development. The programme of the church as I see it will have as its main...
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Opinion – When women take charge of their livelihoods, the whole family benefits
There is a local saying in isiZulu “Uma ufundisa owesifazane, unfundisa umpakathi.” Loosely translated, it means: “When you educate a woman, you educate a nation.” Despite all the advancement in human rights and gender equality, women in our society are still regarded as “sub-humans” who are to be looked after by someone – dad, brother...
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Opinion – Getting your message across in sexual health education
At the moment, as sexual health educators, we have taken it for granted that the community reads posters and newspapers or listens to the radio regularly enough to get well informed on HIV/Aids in particular, and on sexually transmitted diseases in general. To one’s surprise, the number of those infected is still rising. Individual behaviour...
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Opinion – A tribute to Comrade Theo ‘the giant of the south’
In a time like this, our attention is always assembled in one place with a common goal of bidding farewell to our loved ones, and the day of today is not exceptional in remembering and bidding a deserved farewell to my beloved friend, a husband, a father, a brother, and a comrade to many of...