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The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) has confirmed a 4.62% pension benefits increase, effective 01 April 2022 for all GIPF pensioners. 

The Roads Authority (RA) believes the opening of the 52km Namalubi-Isize-Luhonono road in the Zambezi region is of outmost importance.

Worldwide, universities with vision are increasing their efforts to make local impacts and shape the global development agendas by directly contributing to societal development.

There is a likelihood of interest rates rising, as Bank of Namibia may change its accommodative stance in order to curtail inflation. The price of building materials like cement may increase as oil prices go up.

The 40 days period before Easter is commonly known as Lent. This season is normally marked by sacrificing something (usually in the form of food) to reflect the state of one’s penitence. Lent also provides a time for purification.

In 1990, there was euphoria of achieving nationhood after many years of oppression and racial discrimination from the South African government. 

Food security and political stability are often linked. Food security can be upset by a lack of political or social stability. Similarly, the lack of food security resulting from a sudden jolt (poor climate, international embargo, war) can lead to political instability (Smith, 1998).

‘Abortion on demand’ in Namibia has been ignorantly and harmfully connotated as the moral decay of a nation in that individuals who seek this essential health service (on demand), do so because they are irreligious, reckless and uncouth and not because it is a fundamental right and is just another normal reproductive healthcare procedure, which many people overlook with gay abandon.

On 21 March 2022, we celebrated our 32nd anniversary as an independent nation. However, many historical factors contributed to the birth of Namibia as a nation.

Eight years prior to 2030, and Vision 2030 is still just a dream with basically nothing achieved. Are we going to blame it all on the likes of Covid-19 too?