Letters

The late Jacobus Axali Doeseb died on 27 October this year. His passing led to a heated debate as to who wrote the lyrics of the country’s national anthem.

The 20th November marked World Children’s Day, commemorated on the anniversary of the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1989. 

In Namibia, since independence, there has been an advocacy for “education for all”, which is the greatest equaliser and the emphasis has been that: “Through educating a nation, we would be able to close the gap between the poor and the rich.

Despite the disruption of Covid-19 in all works of life, persistence and fortitude were the elements employed to achieve the desired goal.

In the realm of international cooperation, the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme is an excellent example of fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange among nations.

We, fellow patients with kidney failure conditions in Namibia who are on weekly dialysis treatment, wish to condemn the disruption of dialysis services to patients living with such conditions in Palestine and Israel, respectively.

It is only in Namibia that those who benefitted from a student loan start their first job already having accrued debts.

The Nambian government regards education as a fundamental human right. Kofi Ananan said, “Education is the great equaliser of our time; it gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without it”.

Government wants to fund its 24% stake in Green Hydrogen with funds obtained from oil and gas finds, according to Green Hydrogen Commissioner James Munyupe, who stated this at the South African Green Hydrogen Summit in Cape Town held in October 2023.

“The United States is all in on Africa,” President Biden affirmed during the US-Africa Leaders Summit last December.