On Tuesday morning, Madame Lydia Kandetu was the bearer of the depressing news on the demise of a dear friend, colleague and a compatriot Moses Ndjarakana, former Secretary of the National Assembly from 2001-2005.
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Letters – Human trafficking in our motherland
For the past five months, girls and children have been going missing in our country and the most brutal form of trafficking is the commercial exploitation of children.
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Letter – Oshikoto South: New region an option or not
For reasons only known to a selected few, under some unknown and unsubstantiated reasoning, coupled with non-existent supporting arguments, a new regional capital for Oshikoto region was agreed. Yes, Omuthiya has baptised the new administrative capital of the region. The visible consequences, due to the reverse developmental agenda, have seen the once-prosperous Copper Town’s economy...
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Letter – Break Free With The Boyz
The #BreakFree from Violence Campaign is an anti-violence campaign that was initiated in 2017 to create and foster a culture of non-violence. Our work is centred on creating awareness of the various forms of violence and how, as individuals, we can create a society that no longer accepts violence. Over the years, our work has...
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Letter – Swapo leadership has successfully set record on Fishrot
Patrick Smith Last Sunday, Namibians witnessed another high-level display of unmatched accountability and transparency, when President Hage Geingob led the Swapo Party to account on the Fishrot saga in a live streamed and broadcasted address to the Namibian nation. Undoubtedly, the Fishrot saga in which Namibia lost billions of dollars via the greedy Icelandic Fishing...
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Letter – Open letter to the National Arts Council
I am writing to you from my position as an independent artist-writer/poet, and a member of the National Arts Council of Namibia (NACN).
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Letter – Pandemic compromises the four basic goals of education
Namibia’s education system hangs on four fundamental goals, namely, equity, quality, access and democracy. Coronavirus has surprisingly sent a devastating shockwave across the globe.
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Letter – An unsung peril: Tax evasion
In many countries including Namibia, the central role of government in the developmental and economic sphere is building infrastructure and establishing a suitable regulatory framework for economic activities to take place in a safe and predictable environment.
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Letter – Today’s saddest untold truth
The world has become our own enemy and we’ve turned against it.
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Letter – What is teaching like during the pandemic?
Kazanga Joshua In this article, I am going to share with you my personal experience of teaching during the pandemic and encourage the education fraternity to keep up with the heroic work of obliging to the World Health Organisation’s measures during the physical contact phase. In the words of Benjamin Franklin, “The only thing that...