It is perhaps important to revisit how education reform, whose product is the current subject matter of discussion, evolved to assist both those with genuine concerns and those inherently-born spectators in the national affairs, whose pre-occupation is to criticise left, right and centre without offering any practical solution to the problem confronting us as a nation state.
Month: January 2023
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Opinion – The CPBN should do the right thing: Self-correct!
The national public discourse is currently dominated by the selection of the Amnics Trading bid for the lucrative medical supplies tender by the Central Procurement Board of Namibia (CPBN).
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Letter – Demarcating Eiseb Block from Otjombinde
Eiseb Block is the remotest part of the Otjombinde constituency, home to a majority of Namibians repatriated from Botswana in the early 1990s.
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Letter – Which is heavier, the head or the crown?
One needs to dissect and comprehend the statement and its relevance to the contemporary African society as to best describe our socio-political interactions with each other, on any level.
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Editorial – On our own terms
The old cliche that Namibia is a friend to all and an enemy to none should win us more friends than enemies. But our friends should treat the relationship with the necessary decorum and respect.
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Jaturua Katjitundu: The bull in a china shop
The phrase “the bull in a china shop” refers to a giant of a man who is, seemingly, slow but who can cause a lot of damage, just like a bull in a china shop. That was how Jaturua Katjitundu was; but much about that later.
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Tribute to revered Berseba elder
We woke up to the sad news of the passing of our late mother, grandmother and great grand-mother, Fredrika Goliath at the age of 83 on 13 January 2023 at home in Berseba.
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LEX SCRIPTA with Fedden Mainga Mukwata – Costs in the labour court: frivolous and vexatious conduct
Hangayika v Amazing Kids Private School Academy NALCMD (09 December 2022) – what constitutes frivolous and vexatious in terms of section 118 of the Labour Act 11 of 2007?
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Know your civil servant – Muvangua ensures public accountability
Metarere Muvangua is a senior auditor in the directorate of cash-based audits at the Auditor General’s office. He is responsible for the sound and effective functioning of government and ascertaining that the benefit of public funds reaches every corner of society.
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Kanyama’s ‘condom factory’ under wraps
Health tender magnate Shapwa Kanyama has refused this newspaper entry into his purported condom manufacturing factory, located in the Windhoek northern industrial area, citing privacy.