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Zenzi’s Coffee Shop is the proverbial ‘silver lining on a cloud’, because everyone working there, including owner, Zenzi Natasha Mubasen Awases, were retrenched from their previous places of work due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Even though we live in an enlightened and modern era, some cultural customs should not be tampered with, and people need to do things as they have been done in the past.

Walvis Bay Urban constituency councillor Deriou Benson says the very future of Namibia is at stake because of a lack of housing. 

Environment and tourism minister Pohamba Shifeta believes a transition to a greener economy offers an opportunity for the country to move out of the Covid-19 crisis towards a future that is food, water and energy-secure. 

In addition to teaching and conducting research, universities also have the corporate social responsibility function that comes in different forms of community engagement or service. In other words, the functions of universities would not be complete without serving the communities in which they operate. 

For many years, debates and renunciations among Western and African philosophers trained in Western schools of philosophy rejected the notion of an African being able to be critical and innovative under any circumstances. 

Africa Day, commemorated every year on 25 May, marks the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa in 1963, which later transformed into African Union (AU) in 2002. 

Politicians will do whatever it takes to ensure government policies are lucidly written; however, nothing is seemingly done to ensure the implementation of those policies is equally done effectively and efficiently.

Menstruation is a biological function as routine as sleeping or breathing, and is a normal and natural part of a woman’s life. Yet, as normal as it is, menstruation is stigmatised around the world. 

The unfolding debate about the rights of sexual minorities has been heating up, with more voices entering the fray, either in support or against the issue.