Month: April 2022

In 1990, there was euphoria of achieving nationhood after many years of oppression and racial discrimination from the South African government. 

Food security and political stability are often linked. Food security can be upset by a lack of political or social stability. Similarly, the lack of food security resulting from a sudden jolt (poor climate, international embargo, war) can lead to political instability (Smith, 1998).

‘Abortion on demand’ in Namibia has been ignorantly and harmfully connotated as the moral decay of a nation in that individuals who seek this essential health service (on demand), do so because they are irreligious, reckless and uncouth and not because it is a fundamental right and is just another normal reproductive healthcare procedure, which many people overlook with gay abandon.

On 21 March 2022, we celebrated our 32nd anniversary as an independent nation. However, many historical factors contributed to the birth of Namibia as a nation.

Eight years prior to 2030, and Vision 2030 is still just a dream with basically nothing achieved. Are we going to blame it all on the likes of Covid-19 too?

To hold civil servants to a particular yardstick in terms of their performances, based on what the general masses presume as deliverables, is unfair since the civil service is primarily in the business of laying down the regulations on which the work of State-owned enterprises, for example, is underpinned.