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Time for Miss High School North

WINDHOEK – Preparations for the popular and highly anticipated Miss High School North are in full gear.
The grand finale of the beauty pageant has been scheduled for December 19 at Ekamuti Lodge in Ondangwa. Now in its sixth edition, the pageant this year is hosted under the theme, Self-love is a result of self-acceptance. Ten finalists from

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How to beat the Janu-worry blues

WINDHOEK - The festive season is a time of high risk for impulse spending – buying something because you see it, not because you need it. In light of Namibia’s economic downturn, fostering healthy spending behaviour has been top of mind for their citizens. Martha Murorua, Executive Officer for Consumer Banking at FNB Namibia, shares her thoughts.

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Own Your Zula festival attracts Gobabis entrepreneurs

WINDHOEK - After the tremendous success of the 2018 Start-Up Festival in Windhoek, the Gobabis Municipality in cooperation with the Financial Literacy Initiative hosted a Micro Business Start-up Festival in Gobabis this past weekend (24 November 2018) in the Freedom Square Informal Settlement.

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World teems with global security concerns

Twenty six years back I attended a Commonwealth Study Conference hosted by the Duke of Edinburg in Oxford, England.
The conference pulled together representatives of all Commonwealth member countries to deliberate on how best to make the world a better place for all to live in.  The conference broke up in groups and I joined the group that visited Northern Ireland, the contested country, also known as Ulster by sections of the Irish community that forms that society.