Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

On 27 November this year, a local newspaper has reported that ‘Smile’, the locally produced condoms, have disappeared from the shelves after the factory existed for merely 15 years. 

Across Southern Africa, if not Africa at large, we are now seeing a trend, where liberation movements or parties are slowly loosing the morale and momentum they have enjoyed for decades after independence of their respective countries. 

Food security is a global concern – and Namibia is no exception. 

I have known Ignatius Shixwameni as the revolutionary secretary general and President of the Namibia National Students Organisation (Nanso) at the height of the national students’ boycotts of the late 1980. 

Evidence led in the ongoing bail hearing of some of the Fishrot accused has lifted the lid on the grandiose thievery that played itself out for many years. 

The Ministry of Public Enterprises (MPE) chief public relations officer Johnathan Swartz has cautioned the public to desist from labelling the public sector as an unproductive system, as this connotation may discourage graduates from pursuing careers as civil servants.

Alicia Jansen, a grade 7 learner at Minna Sachs Primary school, fears that more children will drop out of school as a result of gender-based violence (GBV) and substance abuse. 

Deputy youth minister Emma Kantema-Gaomas has urged the Oshana region to increase its vaccination uptake, and to move up from its current 10th place on the national vaccination ranking.

Education remains the world’s best bet for a fairer and better world, and Namibia therefore fully supports the Paris Declaration’s call to invest in education for the future of humanity and the planet. 

Oshikoto education director Aletta Eises has implored learners to refrain from indulging in sexual activities as well as wasting time on social media but rather focus on studying, as exams are fast approaching.