The World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is an annual celebration, held every year from the 1st to the 7th August, and it is observed in more than 120 countries of the world. The week was first celebrated in 1992 by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action in collaboration with WHO and UNICEF. The purpose of the...
5 August 2020 marks one year of India’s decision to re-organise its erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, as well as Ladakh. The primary purpose was to improve good governance and deliver socio-economic justice to the people of Jammu and Kashmir Over the past year, this vision...
Peter Haingwedja All businesses globally have been severely impacted by the post-Covid-19, which somehow brought about new abnormalities that we must all strive to adapt if we are to successfully navigate during this pandemic and avoid any severe impact on our businesses. It is vital to have a complete understanding of all dynamics that exist...
Have we seen the bottom? It appears so. The NSA (National Statistics Agency) has released a set of six sectoral indices with data to May 2020 for the following sectors: Beverages, Building Industry, Electricity, Livestock, Tourism and Transport. They all still show that, compared to the same time last year, economic activity is down massively. ...
Money in the time of Covid-19 is an anxiety-inducing topic. This is a challenging time and we have a “new normal” that we must adapt our lives and our finances to. When life gets this unpredictable, the best thing one can do is go back to basics. Here are some of my 2020 money management...
We all wish we could be superman sometimes; we wish we could get by and do it all by ourselves, we wish we were self-made. In reality, it seldomly happens like that, everyone needs and gets help one way or another. Life and circumstances don’t always go as planned and things don’t always work out...
Work-life integration means intertwining what you consider “life” or “personal” areas with “work”. It is not the same as work-life balance, where an unrealistic expectation exists to work out an allocation balance of time which separates work from personal life demands. Often when asked the question of ‘how do you balance work and life?’. I...
Thembi Kandanga We have all been there before – some worse than others. We get our first job after university and banks start offering us credit cards, personal loans, overdrafts and revolving loans; we don’t need and certainly cannot afford. Having fallen prey to a few of these tactics myself, I know how things can...
On Monday 29 June 2020, New Era newspaper carried an article titled “Swapo members in Kongola threaten revolt” in which article the regional coordinator Comrade Moffat Sileze told lies of the highest order one would not expect from a regional political leader calling himself the harmless lion of the Zambezi region. Comrade Sileze particularly said,...
There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent corrupt, or vile men. Namibia has become one of the African countries that are experiencing terrible governance. This is a government that is full of corruption, briberies and nepotism. It is stinking in parliament, State House, and other government offices. Rot here,...