Bank Windhoek has warned customers to be vigilant while banking, especially online, as the festive season nears.
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RFS rubbishes NaCC findings
The Retirement Fund Solutions (RFS) has rubbished findings from the Namibia Competition Commission (NaCC) that concluded the pension fund administrators’ market can be considered oligopolistic.
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Opinion – Employment, growth and basic needs: A one-world problem
Commonwealth heads of government at the Ohawa meeting in 1973 endorsed the decision taken in Lusaka in January 1973 by ministers concerned with youth matters to establish a Commonwealth Youth Programme.
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Opinion – Authentication of African oral history
There are debates in many academic institutions and other centres of learning on whether African oral history should be regarded as authentic to compete with the Western documented history. Lamb (1990) remarks that the history of Africa was passed from one generation to the other by the spoken, not written word.
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Opinion – Keep pushing, don’t surrender to the drivers of life
Society today highlights the importance of success over failure which leads many people to fall prey to the drivers of life by deciding to end their lives. People are facing so much adversity such as unemployment, higher cost of living, relationship problems, not meeting the expectations of society, or failing an exam which prompts them to feel hopeless, helpless, and worthless.
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Opinion – Tribal courts should be guided by honest and integrity
Prejudicial is usually negative. It may influence the way some members of the communities may behave towards certain people, and the expectations most societies have to some. This can be very dangerous. Prejudice can become dangerous if it is spread on a large scale.
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Opinion – Are regional governments autonomous?
It would be very much interesting to know how autonomous regional councils are in Namibia, and the difference between political appointees versus professional officers.
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Opinion – Education reform: Catalyst for Namibian mineral resources
An education without technology does not prepare Namibians with the skills that the world requires. Technology should be omnipresent in education. It is the demand for change that propels education systems to produce a country’s innovators, inventors, creators, problem solvers, entrepreneurs, global citizens, change makers and critical thinkers.
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Letters – Create more safe spaces for men
Recently, there have been so many suicides of men recorded in Namibia’s local newspapers. A lot of them do not leave notes behind. The nation is wondering what the root cause of this act is. A boy child has been neglected and has no space safe for him to share thoughts, ideas and feelings about what is attenuating his peace. Namibia lacks safe spaces for men - an environment of trust where there a
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Letters – The role of an interest rate in the modern financial system
The relationship between the interest rate, savings and investments is important in determining and predicting a country’s economic growth potential and the capacity to finance its own investments.