According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations in its March 2021 crop prospects and food situation quarterly global report, 441 000 Namibians are estimated to be food insecure and would be in need of humanitarian assistance between October 2020 and March 2021.
Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )
Opinion – The mission: The church’s true calling
The most important issue in a mission is the element of word and action.
Opinion – Covid: No one is safe until we are all safe
Two-and-half million globally and 439 in Namibia (ca. 09/03/2021) - these aren’t just fancy Covid-19 numbers, these are counts of actual humans that have succumbed to the novel coronavirus.
Opinion – The role of parliament in the budget process
Transparent and effective government budgeting is vital to any democracy.
Opinion – Supervising and graduating postgraduate students
The urge to acquire postgraduate qualifications has become more aspiring now than before the dawn of independence in the history of the Namibian education system.
Opinion – Women’s day in retrospect
The commemoration of International Women’s Day on 8 March, has come and gone.
Opinion – Is basic education reformation in Namibia a learning process?
A closer reflection and inquiry into Namibia basic education reform could deliver mixed reactions and leave more pertinent questions unanswered.
Opinion – Why does the law not protect the sitting President?
Do the Namibian constitution and the law legally protect a sitting President such as President Hage Geingob, when baseless suggestions of corruption without any shred of evidence are made by the freedom of expression abusers such as The Namibian newspaper’s cartoonist Dudley?
Letter – I stand with First Lady Monica Geingos
In my article in this very same journal on 25 September yesteryear titled, ‘Love toward women should be the next pandemic’, I powerfully quoted Patricia Noah (Trevor Noah’s mother), who once said: “A man is not determined by how much he earns.
Letter – Law of defamation seeks to achieve a satisfactory balance
On the one hand, it recognizes the right of the individual to be afforded protection against harm to his reputation. On the other hand, it also recognises that the public has a right to free speech and proper access to information.
