Editorial

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.

It is wrong for Namibian banks to draw the levels of profit they do from a poverty-stricken, largely unemployed population having just emerged from a pandemic that decimated sections of an already depressed economy.

A clearer picture will emerge in the coming days insofar as the much-anticipated Swapo elective congress and the leadership battle is concerned.

Grisly scenes of decomposing cattle at the government-owned Kavango Cattle Ranch have seen officials coming out of their cocoons following a New Era exposé of the terrible conditions the animals find themselves in. 

​​​​​​​Namibia’s housing crisis and the way it is being handled continues to raise hackles and ruffle feathers. Based on government’s own figures, the mass housing project has not been successful. 

This country’s perplexing and unequal labour situation has again been thrust into the limelight this week with roughly 100 000 civil servants voting on whether to go on strike after negotiations for better pay failed, while the City of Windhoek’s astronomical wage bill has come under scrutiny again.