Thought Leaders

As we get to the end of the year, I found it pertinent to reflect on some readers’ comments on articles on language issues published in this column.

The founder of Positive Prescription, Samantha Boardman, tells of her one-time fear of the word “fail.” She says it implied “a permanent and helpless state of being”. 

On 27 November 2019, as the ultimate sovereigns, Namibians went to the polls, exercised their undeniable democratic right, and re-elected in their majority President Hage G. Geingob to lead the country for the next five years. 

Peace is expensive and so fragile. Reckless initiatives and/or selfish political maneuverings can change a beautiful course of history to an ugly one.

Albert Einstein’s definition of education is: “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think”. With almost thirty years of independence in the bag, we ought to ask this question: is the current education system training our kids to learn facts or to think?

The above is the theme for the World Aids Day 01 December 2019 commemoration. It runs on the precept that the successful reduction of HIV/AIDS infection and the wellbeing of the already infected is dependent on the active and positive involvement of any subject community.

Using results of a mini survey in August this year, Ofer Berenstein of the University of Calgary spent time looking at how people should be encouraged to vote.

Systems that higher education institutions use to promote and reward their deserving academics can make or break the institutions’ reputations.

The 21st Century is all about using energy emanating from natural forces, which Lüderitz has in abundance. Europe and Scandinavian countries have large scale onshore and offshore wind farms.

In a fully-packed stadium of Katima Mulilo in Zambezi region over the weekend of 15 November 2019, President Hage Geingob told the frenzied politically stereotyped crowd that the underdevelopment experienced in the Region was caused by Mishake Muyongo when he fled the region in 1998. As usual, without any analysis of the head of state’s words, the crowd went wild, jeering and cheering, baying for the self-imposed refugee’s blood.