Youth Corner

Driven by the conviction that one can pursue a career in arts and contribute to the country’s economy, Laina Kally Amuulo opened Kally’s Music Academy on 1 September 2020.

As a requirement for the fulfilment of the Bachelors of Laws Degree LLB (Honours) at the University of Namibia (Unam), students are required to engage in a social impact project as part of one of their modules, namely Legal Aid and Professional Ethics. 

With a few people finding employment prospects and the retrenchments that have led to many seeing little chance of re-employment in the same discipline, young people regularly become informally self-employed. 

It is my wish for everyone reading this to live long enough to reach old age, so the youth of the time can one day consider you the ‘fossil’ or ‘outopies’ and ‘zalies’ of their time. 

Eight Namibian students recently received scholarships from the Namibia Ports Authority (Namport) to complete their engineering courses and get international exposure to the blue economy.

Kaluschka Anthea Coetzee is a 25-year self-taught craftswoman from Tsumeb.

Known for hitting the audience with great wordplay, flow and cadence, Patricia Lafewa Uapunduka, also known as Patrick Star, scooped the N$2 000 prize at an Open Mic event last Thursday at Zenzi’s Coffee Shop in the capital.

Inspired mostly by his late mom who used to write poems in the mid-2000s, Sakaria Ipinge Haludilu started writing in 2014 and now finds joy and purpose in writing.  

Teenage pregnancy applies to a female under the age of 20, according to World Health Organisation. 

I have seen so many busy people who simply do not have the time to do anything else; even with what they claim to be important to them.