Termination of pregnancy is a sensitive, emotional and difficult issue with many factors playing a role, with possibly wide-ranging implications with people of faith, especially now that the issue has been brought to Parliament for debate.
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2020-08-212024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Opinion – Tertiary education-phobia: The current African trend
The concept, “education” can be defined and interpreted in many fashions, styles and ways as per situations.
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2020-08-212024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Opinion – Rethinking the meanings of heroes and heroism
The 26th of August is a national day with a historical basis on which the heroes and heroines of Namibia are commemorated.
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2020-08-212024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Opinion – Death and mourning amid Covid-19 restrictions
The Namibian experience of Covid-19 has been unique, with a slow climb towards the current surge in confirmed cases and deaths.
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2020-08-172024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Weekly takeaway with Lawrence Kamwi – Fall down seven times, stand up eight
Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight, is the title of a book by Japanese writer Naoki Higashida. It tells the story of a young man who fights the challenges of autism with tenacity.
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2020-08-172024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Opinion – Effluent water: From burden to valuable resource
The use of treated effluent water for agricultural and mariculture purposes, although controversial, is a practice commonly utilised all over the world.
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2020-08-172024-06-21Focus, International, Thought Leaders
Opinion – Is colonialism solely responsible for Africa’s economic, political stagnation?
Many years after independence and nationhood, almost every African leader is placing the blame of Africa’s inability to lift herself up economically and politically on her former colonisers.
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2020-08-172024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Opinion – Predicaments of war veterans of the Namibian liberation struggle
In 1995, the funding of ex-combatant reintegration became the responsibility of the National Planning Commission (NPC), which established the Socioeconomic Integration Programme for Ex-Combatants (SIPE).
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2020-07-102024-05-07Focus
Star of the Week – Liina Risager
Our Star of the Week is Liina Risager, a jobless woman, who spent her 50th birthday by feeding and donating several items to a destitute family from the Goreangab informal settlement.
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2020-07-102024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Opinion – How absent dads affect the life and future of the girl child
We define fatherless as the lack of emotional bond between a daughter and her father due to, but not limited to: death, divorce, abuse, addiction, incarceration or abandonment.