It seems the strike in which teachers were threatening “to lay down the pieces of chalk” has been thwarted by the 3% increment. This means the anger and frustration of the majority of teachers has been appeased and numbed by the increment, which others see as a drop in the ocean.
Traditionally, there are two alternative industrialisation strategies viz export promotion and import substitution industrialisation strategies.
Thirty-two years of independence have rolled on but Kavangos still complain of being excluded from the delicious part of the independence cake.
The process and the expenditures of regional and municipal councils go out of hand as a result of politicians and groups, who may or may not have supported these expenditures.
My senior leader comrade Nahas Angula penned down a piece in The Namibian newspaper, dated 29 July 2022, titled ‘Democratic accountability will improve service delivery in local authorities’.
Redressing unity in society is crucial for societal convergence, which is well known as societal progression in a much more hopeful terminology- The term also convinces that unity prolongs.
I have been to numerous pre funeral events/ wakes and in the process the observant spirit in me has picked up, somewhat disturbing emerging traits among our people.
Grisly scenes of decomposing cattle at the government-owned Kavango Cattle Ranch have seen officials coming out of their cocoons following a New Era exposé of the terrible conditions the animals find themselves in.
They say that nothing beats a good dose of patience, persistence and perseverance. And for Cornelia Kauri Maharero, truer words have never been spoken. Maharero, a Survey Technician at the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform’s Department of Survey and Mapping, is the epitome of tenacity.
Senior Journalist Albertina Nakale (AN) this week caught up with the secretary of the Swapo Party Women’s Council Fransina Kahungu to discuss various issues affecting women and the much-talked-about female presidential candidates.