Editorial

The opportunities that technological advancements could bring should make us all excited, but we should realise this is an opportunity to level the playing field as access to technology and its benefits is hugely skewed in favour of urban dwellers.

In Namibia, decentralisation is a constitutional requirement; therefore, it is the government’s mandate to work towards decentralisation. 

Very unfortunate events unfolded at the Gam settlement in the Otjozondjupa region last week when locals clashed with shop owners and other businesspeople in what has been attributed to tribalism. 

A considerable number of government projects – mostly worth millions of dollars - are lying idle, either abandoned by contractors or simply struggling to take off. 

Namibians are bored and frustrated by the never-ending circus of court cases, legal letters, accusations which eventually crippled football in the last four years. 

To suggest that apartheid was much better than the Namibia of today is an insult to thousands of heroes and heroines who paid with their lives and sacrificed their youth to fight for a better Namibia.

The horrendous video of a 19-year-old beating her 70-year-old grandmother is a microcosm of so much that is wrong with our society.

Namibia has been hogging international headlines following the recent discovery of oil off the country’s coast. 

The fact the National Population and Housing Census was called off due to financial constraints is a crying shame and lay bare our national failure to properly plan. The census is conducted every decade and was postponed from 2021. 

A blame game has ensued between basic education authorities and its stakeholders, including unions and associations representing the interests of teachers as well as those of learners over the adopted education curriculum.