It is well known that conflicts in communal areas could have more than one root cause. Issues such as water or water points, grazing pastures, forests, fields for subsistence crops or just land in general may prove fertile ground for intercommunal conflicts.
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2020-01-312024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Branding Namibia is also an individual responsibility
On 17 August 2019, at the 39th SADC Summit in Dar Es Salaam, after the familiar United Republic of Tanzania and SADC anthem had been played, President Hage G.
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2020-01-312024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Making a self-reflection in the past 10 years – are you on your trajectory?
The other day a fellow professor and I were philosophising on a number of issues; some very important, and others, not so significant.
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2020-01-312024-05-07Letters
Does limiting access to the courtroom erode media freedom?
In a letter dated 17 December 2019, the Judge President of the High Court of Namibia, Petrus Damaseb, asks the Law Society of Namibia for ‘comments and suggestions before he can finalise an Amendment to the Rules of the High Court of Namibia, High Court Act 1990 for approval by the President of the Republic of Namibia for signing’.
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2020-01-312024-05-07Letters
Informal sector is an untapped gold mine
Besides the collapse of many sectors and the unprecedented retrenchment of thousands of workers, especially in the construction, mining, and retail sectors, one happens to wonder why our policymakers are still high on the idea of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) being the only messiah of our ailing economy.
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2020-01-312024-05-07Editorial
Recurrent drought needs a regional panacea
The effects of climate change are apparent if the consequences of successive debilitating droughts in the entire southern Africa and beyond in recent years are anything to go by.
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2020-01-312024-06-18Front Page News
Hepatitis E: The silent epidemic… victim keeps lid on deadly outbreak
WINDHOEK - Agonising back pain, fatigue, jaundice, nausea and loss of appetite are some of the symptoms that 27-year-old Philemon Sackaria hand to endure last year before he was diagnosed with hepatitis E.
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2020-01-312024-05-07National
NIDA staff bemoan unfair labour practices
KEETMANSHOOP – Workers from the Namibia Industrial Development Agency (NIDA) held a peaceful demonstration earlier this week at Naute dam outside Keetmanshoop.
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2020-01-312024-05-07National
Kröhne lobbies for business support
KEETMANSHOOP – Despite the //Kharas region having a wealth of minerals and marine resources its residents are living under the poorest of circumstances, said Keetmanshoop mayor Gaudentia Kröhne.
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2020-01-312024-05-06Education
Steenkamp reaches out to Omaheke teachers
GOBABIS – Education ministry executive director Sanet Steenkamp has called on teachers in Omaheke region to invest their time in programmes that facilitate and impact learning, including teacher knowledge, skills, attitudes and the alignment of teaching methods.