As a response to the visible and adverse impact of the government’s Covid-19 lockdown and associated restrictions on the economic sector, the Namibia Training Authority has announced relief measures specific to the Employer Training Grant (ETG) scheme of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) Levy programme.
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2020-04-302024-06-18Crime and Courts
Alleged girlfriend killer case postponed to May
The Katutura Magistrate’s Court has set down the case of a 42-year-old man accused of killing his girlfriend and mother of his children nearly two years ago in Windhoek’s Otjomuise suburb.
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2020-04-302024-05-07Editorial
This is no time for blame
The first cases of what would become known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) that starts as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) were reported in 1981 mostly among a population of men having sex with men in the United States of America (USA).
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2020-04-302024-05-07Letters
Namibia at the crossroad of securing tomorrow
We are at a critical juncture as a nation! Karsten Voigt, one of the great German thinkers opined, “Anyone who wants to be pioneer must first be capable of contemplation. Thinking ahead is thus nothing other than a form of contemplation directed towards the future.”
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2020-04-302024-05-07Letters
Lockdown aftermath – survival of hybrids
Covid-19 has undeniably pushed forward the Fourth Industrial Revolution where workers are no more required to be hands on but are required to be computer savvy and mobile in terms of working from home and independently. This is on top of having other crucial social and technical skills.
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2020-04-302024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Universities must offer non-fixed contracts to retired professors
Retiring ages for professors from active teaching and research differ from university to university across the world. For some universities the mandatory retirement age is fixed at 60 years, for others at 65 or 70 years. It is normal practice in some universities that after any of the mandatory retirement age limits, universities professors are given one-year contracts which are renewable each year.
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2020-04-302024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Searching for anecdotes of home-grown foreign policy
The revolutionary icon of Namibia’s fight against colonisation, Kaptein Hendrik Witbooi, demonstrated astuteness and foresight when he diplomatically engaged traditional chiefs and foreign colonial settlers for balance of power in the territory called Namibia today during the period starting from around 1880.
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2020-04-302024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
South Africa must pay up
Thirty years ago, the guns between PLAN and the racist South African forces went silent ushering in Namibian independence on 21 March 1990.
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2020-04-302024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Covid-19 and women
Early signs are that the Covid-19 virus poses a greater direct health risk to men, and particularly older men.
But the pandemic is exposing and exploiting inequalities of all kinds, including gender inequality.
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2020-04-302024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Multi-dimensional health
Modern Western thinking about health has been dominated by the biomedical approach but there is much more to a person’s health than his physical health. Health is multi-dimensional and is influenced by many factors. It must be noted that the health of a person can be directly affected by the following series of relationships; home life, the village, the nation, our ancestors, and our relationship with the earth.