Three years ago, when the National Commission on Research Science and Technology (NCRST) mooted the idea of a multidisciplinary academic journal, some critics never thought that such a proposal would yield any meaningful results. Others said it was a far-fetched idea which would fizzle or evaporate into thin air. But dedicated scholars from NCRST, the University of Namibia (Unam), the mother university, the Namibia University of Science and Technology (Nust) and the International University of Management (IUM), believed in the idea of the journal and took upon themselves the mammoth task of setting up structures, rules and regulations that have culminated in the first edition of the Namibia Journal for Research, Science and Technology that was launched last week in Windhoek.
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Star of the Week: Fabina Nditoudja Hangula
Our Star of the Week is Fabina Nditoudja Hangula who was promoted to the rank of senior correctional officer by Namibian Correctional Service Commissioner-General Raphael Tuhafeni Hamunyela.
UNAIDS supports training of prison nurses in HIV & AIDS management
WINDHOEK - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) in Namibia is supporting the training of nurses from the Namibian Correctional Service (NCS) to initiate inmates on antiretroviral treatment (ART) as global efforts to take health care services closer to the people gain momentum.
Opinion: Avoiding wasteful and redundant meetings…and how to strike the right balance
There is a way in which a new day opens with the pregnant promise of new possibilities, and opportunities for higher levels of success. With some luck, people on a team, in an organization, or institution, may even attain the benchmarks that have previously seemed elusive.
Opinion: Tertiary institutions must develop and maintain a culture of quality assurance
Higher education without quality is useless and a waste of money and time. That there should always be quality in higher education is not debatable.
Opinion: Gender-based violence causes from Ovawambo perspective
A lot has been said about gender-based violence. However, there is no end in sight to this problem.
Independent candidate politics and its fanatical underpinnings
It appears that the masterminds behind “independent candidate politics” in Namibia are gradually gaining a lot of ground in the national political game.
The relevance of young voters in an independent country
Young voters notoriously neglect the importance of voting, but their voice is an important one on both sides of the coin.
ECN position represents legal positivism in practice
The Electoral Commission of Namibia as a custodian of election related matter in our Republic has taken a bold stand to enforce strict compliance of political parties to both statutory and constitutional provisions that require aspiring parliamentarians first to resign from their remunerated public office positions before accepting nominations as candidates of their respective parties.
Mental stamina in a noisy world
In my last piece, I simplified the forces in the world as extroversion and introversion.
I owe this characterisation to a general belief that introverts are a weaker species.