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2019-03-152024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders

The plight of Namibia’s children in rural schools

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Goran Hyden is right when he says, “Turing the despair and pessimism that affects large sectors of the African people into hope and optimism will require from the planners of African development to re-inspect the premises upon which they have based their planning to date. No one escapes this challenge: there are no short cuts to progress.”

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2019-03-152024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders

Parliament not as old as often claimed

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An article titled ‘A parliament of the elderly’ that appeared in The Patriot newspaper of 8 March 2019 is, to all intends and purposes, fake news that seeks to distort gains made by the ruling party Swapo in being an all inclusive party represented in parliament by a diverse set of individuals of a different range of age groups. 

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2019-03-132024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders

The fallacy of independent candidacy of a Swapo member

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We live in interesting times where members of our society have awoken from slumber to learn what they should have known from the dawn of independence in 1990 that every Namibian is guaranteed certain rights in the national constitution, including the right to participate in presidential elections as an independent candidate.