Early February this year I was driving from Windhoek to Okahandja. When I left Windhoek, as it was a Saturday afternoon, and the road was not that busy, there was only one sedan ahead of me.
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2020-02-282024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
21 March is our day worth celebrating
Contrary to my decision to take some time from proffering my opinion publicly, while I do some introspection on where we find ourselves as a nation, I am compelled to pen this down.
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2020-02-282024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Some of these indigenous churches are evil – be warned
Our societies have been invaded by new churches – faith groups mushrooming everywhere, disturbing the tranquility of our beautiful neighbourhoods. The evil that men do lives after them.
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2020-02-282024-05-07Letters
China, Namibia and the coronavirus
As Namibia’s large Chinese population and the ambassador are trying to calm Namibians, do we have reasons to be worried?
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2020-02-282024-05-07Letters
The economic justification of lifelong learning
Lifelong learning is an emerging concept that has managed to find its way into the centre of many neo-development theories and concepts, such as globalisation, liberalisation, progressivism and economics.
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2020-02-282024-05-07Editorial
Editorial – Convert ideas into action
Plans, plans and more plans. As a country, we are good at that.
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2020-02-282024-05-07Columns
Raising Naneni – Is your parenting style hypocritical?
Magical clouds covering the evening sky and the bright African sunset induced in us a natural high. The four wheels of our rusty silver Nissan drove us through the beautiful terrain of the village.
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2020-02-282024-05-07Columns
Sorry ngo – Let’s stop this war and drink our umqomboti
Vakwetu, Namibia and South Africa are at war. First, I thought maybe we were fighting over the Orange River like we nearly did with Botswana over Kasikili Island.
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2020-02-282024-05-07Focus
African Diaspora: Beyond the year of return
The first set of African slaves are said to have landed in the Americas in 1502. History has it that in 1833 several slave-owning countries including Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal agreed to stop the practice although many of them and others continued the practice up to even beyond the 1880s.
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2020-02-282024-05-07National
//Kharas promotes open door policy
AROAB – A collective governing approach involving all relevant stakeholders is of paramount importance since this is the gateway to prosperity in any given structure said Megameno Shikongo, Deputy Director for the Directorate Planning and Development Services at //Kharas Regional Council.