Using results of a mini survey in August this year, Ofer Berenstein of the University of Calgary spent time looking at how people should be encouraged to vote.
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Opinion: A sensitive promotion system fosters loyalty and trust among academics
Systems that higher education institutions use to promote and reward their deserving academics can make or break the institutions’ reputations.
NCS must promote HIV treatment as important prevention tool
WINDHOEK - The Country Director for the joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) in Namibia has encouraged nurses working in Namibian Correctional Services (NCS) facilities all over the country to encourage inmates to voluntarily undergo HIV testing and to initiate those who need treatment early.
Star of the Week: all Namibian political parties, the electorate at large
Our Star of the Week goes to all Namibian political parties, the electorate at large for participating peacefully in the National Assembly and Presidential elections on Wednesday.
Lüderitz …potential powerhouse of namibia!
The 21st Century is all about using energy emanating from natural forces, which Lüderitz has in abundance. Europe and Scandinavian countries have large scale onshore and offshore wind farms.
Opinion: Zambezi’s Developmental Ills
In a fully-packed stadium of Katima Mulilo in Zambezi region over the weekend of 15 November 2019, President Hage Geingob told the frenzied politically stereotyped crowd that the underdevelopment experienced in the Region was caused by Mishake Muyongo when he fled the region in 1998. As usual, without any analysis of the head of state’s words, the crowd went wild, jeering and cheering, baying for the self-imposed refugee’s blood.
Opinion: Is poverty a state of mind?
Not so long ago I read an article by a Namibian student in which he argued that poverty is a state of mind.
Opinion: The actions of a few
Sy aankoms is soos donderweer, wat blits sonder ‘n druppel van die wolklose hemel.
Opinion: Are you being served?
From 1972 to 1985, television viewers enjoyed over sixty episodes of the hilarious situational comedy, Are You Being Served? It made fun of the misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major British department store.
Opinion: The benefits and joys of studying literature
At one workshop for English teachers, there was at first strong resistance from most participants when it was suggested that literature in English should be made a compulsory subject in all schools in Namibia as one of the ways of improving the English language proficiency of not only learners, but also the teachers themselves.