Editorial

The fact that everyone has buyer’s remorse with the Windhoek City council and is fed up with the goings-on there but no one can do anything about it should concern all of us.

An elementary schoolboy mistake plunged the Swapo Party into an unprecedented constitutional crisis this week. The damning error threw the outcome of the ruling party’s central committee elections into disarray after it emerged that a totally wrong list of successful candidates was read out during the closing ceremony at the seventh elective congress on Monday night.

The concept of a men’s conference started as a joke and well-recycled memes on social media but this week Namibia created a great platform for men of different ages and backgrounds to discuss one of the topical issues of our time.

Absenteeism has become chronic in the National Assembly as the ruling party readies for its watershed and seventh elective congress. The habitual absenteeism has left presiding officers with no choice but to adjourn proceedings due to a lack of quorum. 

That the Road Fund Administration considers toll roads is another punch in the gut that Namibians are not ready for and cannot afford.

When finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi tabled the mid-term budget review this week, one of the main considerations was how to minimise the impact of the escalating cost of living that continues to exert pressure on ordinary Namibians. 

Candidates in the Swapo succession race are ostensibly struggling to get to the nub of the issue as far as the direction and renewal of the liberation movement is concerned. 

The gruesome murder of a six-year-old boy at Karibib and the circumstances in which his body parts were found would have shocked many. 

Parliamentarians repeatedly not showing up for work without a valid explanation should get the book thrown at them. 

As the busy silly season continues to unfold, the attention of many Namibians is on the looming intra-party contestation of the ruling party, Swapo.