Editorial

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.

Namibian Police chief Sebastian Ndeitunga sent Chief Inspector Christina van Dunem Dafonsech to the north to sort out con artists masquerading as clergymen and healers. 

The Swapo Party will towards the end of this year hold its elective congress where a new top leadership will be elected to steer the ruling party for another five years. 

The devastating news that three babies, under the age of one, died of Covid-19 should concern us all.