Agriculture, water and land reform minister Calle Schlettwein has cautioned that theft and vandalism of water installation remain a matter of great concern in the ministry.
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Namibia drops one place on global corruption index
Although Namibia’s score remained unchanged at 49 on the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index, the country actually fell one spot to 59 on the global indicator of public sector corruption.
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Green hydrogen value chain an opportunity for locals
Like many other countries on the continent, Namibia is plagued by energy poverty, which poses an obstacle to the economic growth and development of Namibia and her people.
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Opinion – Higher education: A necessity for women
Education is a term which describes the process by means of which we come to realise our capacity for human action – that is to say, the capacity which makes it possible for us to act in a manner which appropriately distinguishes us from other objects or beings.
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Opinion – Trial and error as political, educational systems’ hallmarks
In his documentary, ‘The Africans: A Triple Heritage, Programme 6: in Search of Stability’, Ali Mazrui (1986), the late renowned Kenyan academician and political analyst, likens Nigeria to an enormous political laboratory.
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Opinion – The meaning of independence and freedom
In a contemporary political environment, only ordinary citizens may provide a rational and applied meaning and interpretation of independence and freedom and its implications, because they are experiencing it daily.
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Opinion – Perfect Sense Accreditation Paradox 2
In this piece, I will discuss the overlapping functions, contradictions and duplication of accreditation and registration of Namibian institutions, universities and vocational centres by the three governing agencies, namely the Namibia Qualifications Authority (NQA), Namibia Training Authority (NTA), and National Council of Higher Education (NCHE), which produce conflicting results in many accredi
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Opinion – Role of informal sector in developing countries
What defines the informal sector is a matter to be debated, and it appears to have no comprehensive and universally accepted definition. Attempts to come up with a generally accepted concept resulted even in more diversity than harmony. Attempts to measure the contribution of the informal sector faces a challenge of first defining what it entails.
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Opinion – Wildlife conservation vs land
Who would’ve ever thought that Namibia, the 34th-largest country and the third least-densely populated country in the world, would today be faced with the issue of land?
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Know your civil servant – I signed up for it
When he took the Hippocratic Oath, Dr Theo-Ben Raumana Kandetu knew he would carry with him the lifelong responsibility of caring for patients.