Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Winners of the 2019 Visible Talent Namibia Show feel exploited, as they are still waiting for their outstanding prize monies.

Local photographer Willem Vrey was selected through a competitive application process to partner with the Omeho Project. Vrey is tasked to capture the spirit of startup entrepreneurship in Windhoek with the aim to raise awareness of what it means to be a business founder in Namibia. 

The Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI), in conjunction with Namibia’s private sector, this week handed over the first 21 tonne tank of oxygen to the government via the health ministry. 

The phrase “young people are not the church of the future, they are the church of now” has been rumbling around my head and heart for the past few years.  I’m not sure where I heard it, or if I’ve merely morphed what others have said, but the sentiment expressed seems clearer to me with each passing year.

The core activities for academics in universities are teaching, research and community service. While most academics find teaching and community service comparatively easy, research usually poses big challenges for many. 

The notion of a social compact between government, business and civil society as a basis for long-term economic growth and development underpins a possible economic model that will redefine our economic landscape for decades to come. 

In Namibia, it is often reported of the board being fired by the shareholder or nominee shareholder and the board of directors firing the top management.

After the Masida encounter and indaba, the PLAN combatants headed for Nziba and Makanga villages. At Nziba, the ground for mobilisation for the liberation struggle was more fertile, as Moses Malamo Manowa’s father, Mzilikazi Manowa Madebela, was a resident there. It was partly to accomplish the liberation struggle mission and reunion with the father.

With the recent US Supreme Court upholding of the dismissal of the genocide lawsuit by the US High Court, the Germany-Namibia deal regarding the “reparations” amount (which did not go down well with some of the leaders) and now the passing on of Ombara Otjitambi (Paramount Chief) Vekuii Rukoro due to Covid-19, everything that could go wrong seems to have gone wrong. 

The pandemic has exposed long-standing gaps in public health, and it is time for lasting reforms, including tackling bureaucratic hurdles, which appear to have delayed the delivery of critical supplies such as medical oxygen.