WINDHOEK – The acting Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources Albert Kawana has called upon all stakeholders in the fishing industry to work with him to ensure confidence is re-instilled in the industry and that jobs are created.
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2019-11-292024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Opinion: Namibia, stay your course of unity!
Peace is expensive and so fragile. Reckless initiatives and/or selfish political maneuverings can change a beautiful course of history to an ugly one.
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2019-11-292024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
A perspective insight on Namibia’s education system
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?
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2019-11-292024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Opinion: ‘Communities make the difference’
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.
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2019-11-292024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Opinion: Finally caught: is it 24-7-52 or 24-7-365?
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.
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2019-11-292024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Opinion: A sensitive promotion system fosters loyalty and trust among academics
Systems that higher education institutions use to promote and reward their deserving academics can make or break the institutions’ reputations.
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2019-11-292024-05-07Letters
Opinion: Churches – Take responsibility for Gender Based Violence
“Men who are much more religious than their partners are especially likely to perpetrate domestic violence (Simister & Kowalewska)”
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2019-11-292024-05-07Editorial
Editorial: Democracy has become our integral part
The campaigns leading to Wednesday’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections and the polling itself are a clear indication the democratic culture has fully entrenched itself in Namibia. Multi-party elections where political parties freely engage in the contestation of competing ideas, trying to woo voters on what they will do once voted into power, has become an integral part of our way of life.
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2019-11-292024-05-07Focus
NCS must promote HIV treatment as important prevention tool
WINDHOEK - The Country Director for the joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) in Namibia has encouraged nurses working in Namibian Correctional Services (NCS) facilities all over the country to encourage inmates to voluntarily undergo HIV testing and to initiate those who need treatment early.
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2019-11-292024-05-07National
Hompa to be interred on Saturday
KADEDERE - The traditional leader of the VaGciriku traditional community Hompa Kassian Shiyambi, who died on 17 November will be laid to rest on Saturday at Mamono village in Ndonga Linena constituency after requiem mass in the Catholic Church at Nyangana.