Very often, street vendors are hit by speeding vehicles or narrowly avoid traffic accidents with serious injuries while habitually trying to sell their goods by dashing across busy streets to approach potential customers. This is a common sight on our busy streets, markets or alongside roads. This highlights the growing danger of illegal street trading,...
Access to knowledge is critical for informing evidence-based policy and for catalysing the transformation of Namibia and, by extension, Africa into a sustainable knowledge-based economic society. However, access to knowledge produced in most African countries remains limited for the general public and policymakers due to the dominance of the commercial publishing ecosystem. It is shocking...
As a criminal justice practitioner, it is almost inconceivable that an organisation like Interpol, which is conceived to uphold the rule of law across borders and is a paragon of international cooperation, can so visibly falter in embodying the principle it claims to champion – gender equality. At first glance, Interpol, the International Criminal Police...
Media platforms were filled with birthday wishes for President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who was born on 29 October 1952. Organisations and individuals composed eye-catching and heartfelt messages celebrating the grace of God upon His favourite child, Nandi-Ndaitwah. Each organisation’s message emphasised its positive impression related to its mission and vision, aligned with the current administration. The...
Takarive is settlement in Botswana near Mahalapye. Originally this settlement was donated by the Bamangwato chieftainship for settling Chief Samuel Katjiikumbua Maharero’s people. Thus, several clans who fled Namibia with Samuel Maharero including those of Riarua, Ombongora, Tjivasera, Toromba, Mireti, Kaposambo and many others have settled there. It is said that many of the Genocide...
In 1992, during the peak of forming and organising constituencies for the first regional elections since Namibia gained independence in 1990, the national leadership of the Swapo Party assigned Jesaya Nyamu to carry out that task in what is now the Zambezi region. A few days after his arrival, the team traveled to Sibbinda, where...
Namibia stands at a critical juncture. Across the public sector, recurring patterns of financial misconduct have emerged patterns that threaten the credibility of our institutions and the future of our nation. Fraud, theft, mismanagement, misappropriation of assets, unethical conduct and collusion are no longer isolated incidents. They reflect systemic failures that demand urgent reform. It...
Israel and Hamas have recently “signed off” the first phase of United States (US) president Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza Peace Plan. Akwardly, this is seen as a major step towards a permanent end to two years of Zionist mass genocide in the Gaza Strip, an integral part of Palestine. A diabolic peacemaker, Trump, and thus...
In this superficially sophisticated world, it is easier to be caught up in the web that will eventually control your entire life and its experience. It is not necessarily that it is the way it should be, but mostly just because of your geographical, cultural or even religious positioning you end up being caught in...
It has become increasingly evident that the residents of Katima Mulilo share a collective understanding; our local authority continues to fail in its core mandate to develop the infrastructure necessary to deliver essential services to the town and its residents. For far too long, the Katima Mulilo Town Council has operated without a clear strategy...