National

 This is the second instalment of articles on ‘sanctity of human life’. This week’s article focuses on euthanasia. 

 The Minister of Finance and Public Enterprises tabled the 2023/2024 national budget on 22 February 2023 which is anchored on three pillars: pro-sustainability, pro-poor and pro-growth.

The year 1964 marked 60 years after the wiping-out order of all the Hereros. A pocket of breathing skeletons cheated death by supping poisoned water. 

 The green revolution is the misleading name given to a chemical-based agricultural model that was introduced to India in 1965. 

The advent of Artificial Intelligence chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022 was celebrated by students, academics and researchers in higher education institutions, especially in the developed world. 

In a recent submission to the High Court of Namibia, the attorney-general argued that the crime of sodomy is justified as most Namibians still reject homosexuality. The AG primarily relied on “parliament’s activities” that do not suggest a “legislative trend” towards decriminalising sodomy. 

Schools in Namibia should actively participate in agricultural practices as one of the ways of preparing learners to engage in food production and self-employment after school. 

The Labour Act, 11 of 2007, is currently limited to sexual harassment, but the Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment-Creation (MLIREC) is busy with amendments to the Act which will include violence and harassment in the workplace.

The bail application of former minister of justice Sacky Shanghala’s employee, Nigel van Wyk, on new facts, started in the Windhoek High Court before Oshakati-based judge Davis Munsu on Tuesday.

The Capricorn Group donated a collection of 200 grade 10 and 11 textbooks plus a variety of stationery to M&K Gertze High School in Rehoboth and Mount View High School in Windhoek on 28 February 2023.