There is a local saying in isiZulu “Uma ufundisa owesifazane, unfundisa umpakathi.” Loosely translated, it means: “When you educate a woman, you educate a nation.” Despite all the advancement in human rights and gender equality, women in our society are still regarded as “sub-humans” who are to be looked after by someone – dad, brother...
Leaders are those who connect the dots. Equally, youth entrepreneurship in Africa will be driven by the young minds who have the ability to connect the dots. With so many challenges stemming from issues of ineffective governance, lack of infrastructure (both soft and hard) and most importantly lack of funding instruments for entrepreneurship, being a...
For the past several years, we have been living under the illusion that, after the colonial sunset, we had crossed that historic bridge from inequality to equality, conflict to absolute peace, and from poverty to prosperity. The nation was hopeful at the dawn of independence that we were shaping a society grounded in common citizenship...
Lavinia Shikongo As a responsible corporate citizen, MultiChoice Namibia (MCN) is adhering to the government’s national safety precautions and Covid-19 measures. Now, because we always put our customers and your needs at the heart of everything we do, we’re making it easier for you to adhere to those measures. We’re encouraging all our customers...
While the government of the Republic of Namibia and the relevant authorities worked so hard to have the school of veterinary medicine in Namibia, the legislations surrounding the profession seem to be protecting the monopoly within the profession. Act 1 of 2013 is a legislation, which was passed into being a law in the year...
You hear many people saying the youth are not interested in agriculture. These are mostly politicians and office bearers. According to them, youth are lazy and find agricultural activities disgusting, but find working in suits and polished shoes the only profession to pursue. The real question to ask is; is it the will, availability of...
Let me start by making it very clear that our protracted liberation struggle has never been against racial groups, in this case particularly the whites. The struggle was against inhuman exploitation, unjust and oppressive colonial occupation and apartheid rule. The fact, however, was that under the apartheid system, the exploited were supposed to be the...
Michela Pakarae The Chinese metropolis Shenzhen is often perceived as one of the most advanced urban places in China because of both its technology and dynamics. This perception is grounded in the story of the ‘fisher village’ that was transformed into a Special Economic Zone within a few years to metropolitan town of high-rise buildings,...
At the moment, as sexual health educators, we have taken it for granted that the community reads posters and newspapers or listens to the radio regularly enough to get well informed on HIV/Aids in particular, and on sexually transmitted diseases in general. To one’s surprise, the number of those infected is still rising. Individual behaviour...
Inclusivity and unity are key principles towards the attainment of a common objective. An effective and responsive democracy is formed and founded on the bases of constitutional rights and freedoms under which every person has equal fundamental human rights and the opportunity to contribute to the betterment of democracy. In a democracy like ours, we...