When I am speaking to assembled executives and employees of a corporation, I often startle my audience by suggesting that the key to their success is in working less, not more. Relaxation is just as necessary to success as work. It is perhaps that hypothetical perfect state of existence where all of our parts and functions are in perfect order.
Author: Reverend Jan Scholtz (Reverend Jan Scholtz )
Opinion – Child marriages: A bane to society
In many rural communities in Africa, marriage and child bearing are considered the most appropriate roles for young women between the ages of 15 and 24. Studies have revealed a strong connection between early age of marriage and low educational and health status of the individual and family marriage.
Opinion – The community story in the context of sex, GBV
Today, I am tackling a matter geared towards primarily Christians, especially as 90% of the population profess Christianity.
Opinion – Employment, growth and basic needs: A one-world problem
Commonwealth heads of government at the Ohawa meeting in 1973 endorsed the decision taken in Lusaka in January 1973 by ministers concerned with youth matters to establish a Commonwealth Youth Programme.
Opinion – Conversations on homosexuality and marriage: A reflection
Different Christians have different understandings of and policies governing marriage and divorce, and these have evolved.
Opinion – Constraints to development: Technology Issues
Technology can be considered as all the processes that are adopted in transforming inputs into finished products. Various processes can be used to transform the same type of inputs into finished products.
Opinion – The gender perspective
Back in the day, during my studies at the University of Zambia (UNZA), we had one discussion on what it is to be a male.
Opinion – A diverse church re-imagined
Two of the spiritual giants of the early church were Tertullian and Augustine. Tertullian was regarded as one of the best Christian thinkers of his day (c.160 – c225), just as Augustine was for his (354 – 430).
Opinion – Namibia: Now is the time to redefine, reclaim and regain
Today is tomorrow’s yesterday. I took a walk down memory lane at a concert celebrating the music of the Swedish supergroup of the 1970 – 80s. I came away dripping with nostalgia and a maudlin longing for those days when I was half as old as now.
Opinion – Zoom into the Kairos Document: A challenge to the churches
On September 1985, the Institute for Contextual Theology (ICT) in Johannesburg produced the Kairos Document to give a theological response to the moral and spiritual crisis caused by the brutal repression, which characterised the Apartheid state of South Africa.









