Sex education encompasses various issues that may include sexual and reproductive health; puberty and sexuality; human reproduction: adolescent fertility; maternal morbidity and mortality; HIV/Aids and other sexually transmitted diseases; family planning as well as abortion and miscarriages.
Year: 2023
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Opinion – Small-holder farmers’ perceptions of climate change
The term small-holder farmer refers to a producer that cultivates crops or rears livestock on a limited scale for subsistence purposes. The majority of small-scale farmers, especially in Namibia, rely on rain-fed agriculture to grow food production and secure their livelihoods.
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Opinion – External examination enhances accountability in higher education
When higher education institutions launch new programmes, one of the ways which they cite in assuring quality is regularly subjecting these qualifications to external examination.
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Opinion – My experiences as a teacher
When I went to the teachers’ college in 2006, I didn’t have the slightest idea of what I was getting into.
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Opinion – In defence of Ukraine
Two weeks ago, The Namibian published a very moving article on the Russian war on Ukraine titled: ‘Namibians, Where is Your Outrage? Where is Your Support?’
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Letter – Retain profits in the Namibian economy
Namibia is crying today because our economic policies are at times too diplomatic. A perfect Independence Day endowment would be a policy that will shake Namibia’s wealth bag so that all Namibians may eat and live above the poverty line.
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Letter – We will fight for ourselves
We have noticed how those who work by order without knowledge had to avert a peaceful demonstration this week, and it is sad to learn about how Namibians were forced to celebrate 33 years of suffering in a country that their grandparents fought for.
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Editorial – When diplomats go astray
In the week that Namibia celebrated the anniversary of the removal of a colonial force from its soil, the local representative of the world’s premier colonial power was caught indulging in some serious undiplomatic vitriol.
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Know Your Civil Servant – Positivity can improve teaching, learning in rural schools
Obedy Mabuta Nsundano is a public school teacher who said is not deterred by the negative perception of teaching and learning in under-resourced rural schools.
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LEX SCRIPTA with Fedden Mainga Mukwata – Citizenship by descent
When the respondent applied for the registration of the minor child’s citizenship by descent, the Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration required him to submit to a DNA paternity test to prove that it was the respondent and not his Mexican same-sex spouse who contributed the male gamete (reproductive cell).