“Man’s dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world - the fight for the Liberation of Mankind”.
Opinions
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Opinion – Lack of Affirmative Action Policy in the heritage sector
Reality in the leadership and management of the cultural and heritage sector in Namibia is the absence of oversight when it comes to compliance with the application of the Affirmative Action Policy of which the office of the Employment Equity Commission is a custodian.
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Opinion – Protect and support healthcare workers in the frontline
The world has been battling the novel coronavirus since the announcement of a global pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organisation.
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Opinion – Retirement planning at every career stage
Thembi Kandanga Life has many important milestones; graduation, marriage, children, buying a house and soon enough retirement. There’s no getting around it, retirement is a big deal and despite the life-changing magnitude of this event, it’s something that many of us leave to the last minute. Think of how you would like to spend...
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Opinion – Fall down seven times, stand up eight
Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight, is the title of a book by Japanese writer Naoki Higashida. It tells the story of a young man who fights the challenges of autism with tenacity. The book gives the reader enduring and poignant lessons about life. Fall down seven times, stand up eight, is also a...
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Opinion – Effluent water: From burden to valuable resource
The use of treated effluent water for agricultural and mariculture purposes, although controversial, is a practice commonly utilised all over the world. Furthermore, the recycling and reuse of effluent water have increased significantly over the last four decades with transnational organisations like the United Nations and the World Health Organisation encouraging the reuse of treated...
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Opinion – Is colonialism solely responsible for Africa’s economic, political stagnation?
Many years after independence and nationhood, almost every African leader is placing the blame of Africa’s inability to lift herself up economically and politically on her former colonisers. However, African countries are not the only ones, which were colonised. Other countries, which were colonised have since then risen up and faced real economic and political...
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Opinion – Predicaments of war veterans of the Namibian liberation struggle
In 1995, the funding of ex-combatant reintegration became the responsibility of the National Planning Commission (NPC), which established the Socioeconomic Integration Programme for Ex-Combatants (SIPE). These reintegration efforts had limited success in addressing grievances, and by the late 1990s, many of the former rank-and-file combatants who had not been incorporated into the NDF remained unemployed. ...
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Opinion – Germany’s crimes of genocide – justice must be served
The genocide which is the odious scourge and which was committed in the then so-called German South West Africa in the 20th century still haunts us to this day, hence my decision to raise my voice, albeit briefly, to the cry of our people who suffered through this horrendous crime committed in their motherland. My...
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Opinion – Economic resilience: An antidote for Covid-19 crisis
Economic resilience is defined by the United Nations as the policy-induced ability of an economy to withstand or recover from the effects of external shocks. In the other quarters, there is need for economies to implement policies that enhance the ability to resist vulnerabilities arising from economic openness. The Namibian economy is not an exemption...