Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

As social animals, we are made to relate to other people. It is therefore natural for people to share their feelings and pains in times of adversity and challenging experiences.

Deputy ICT minister Emma Theofelus, as a member of parliament, facilitated the launch of the Bring a Buddy to Parliament, a democracy project in conjunction with the Office of the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Namibia Nature Foundation, under the theme ‘Bringing the Youth Closer to Parliament’.

I was recently asked if the youth can really have an impact in the world as they are told. 

Introduced in 2018, New Era Publication Corporation’s Traineeship Programme has produced its first group of graduates over the last year.

Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) and the University of Namibia (Unam) third-year environmental health and sciences students recently completed Meatco’s one-month internship programme.

26-year-old Clytinah Lifasi is busy preparing to share her talent of makeup artistry with youths in Rundu and Katima Mulilo, she says the makeup industry is booming and offers an opportunity to young women who are just home due to the high rate of unemployment.

Hailing from the Onawa village in the Omusati region, Monika Pendukeni and her partner Prof Scholastika Ndatinda Iipinge are the visionaries for the Welwitschia Health Training Centre, a registered private higher education institution in Namibia, focussing on health, social and management sciences.

Letshego Bank Namibia received a PMR Diamond award for being the leading micro financial service provider in Namibia. The awards ceremony for the annual PMR Awards took place in Windhoek this week. 

A consensus by local analysts that attracting more investment for the domestic economy is crucial to ensure economic growth could be hampered by the fact that institutional investors would welcome a regime where State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) are discouraged to continually depend on government funding.

The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights, which appeared as part of the medieval natural law tradition that became prominent during the European enlightenment.