In some parts of the world, it is common for couples to get married without the consent or blessing of their parents. In the Nama tradition, however, parents and the extended family form an integral part of the rites and ceremonies a couple goes through before the big day.
Policies that effectively include the needs of all key stakeholders will enable governments to accelerate economic and societal growth as well as development.
Deputy minister of gender equality Bernadette Jagger has called for an examination of cultural practices on the way children are raised in order to discourage harming the most vulnerable in society.
The ministry of poverty eradication and social welfare handed over income generating equipment to beneficiaries in the Zambezi region on Tuesday.
Namibia must accelerate intra Africa trade to begin fully realising the tangible benefits of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement and to promote industrialisation on the continent.
Renowned motivational speaker, philosopher, musician and social entrepreneur bishop Joshua Maponga says people are socialised to think culture is evil, but there is potential in it.
Communal farmers in northern Namibia are harvesting their mahangu after the good rains received late during the rainy season countrywide. Many communal farmers say their mahangu (millet) fields delivered good yields.
The bail hearing of a police reservist, accused of attempting to defeat the course of justice in the ongoing Fishrot case, will resume end of this month.
A woman and her two accomplices, who had vanished for two weeks after allegedly kidnapping another women’s child, were remanded in custody after they appeared in the Tsumeb Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.