Author: Wonder Guchu
Column: How to see Africa
Breyten Breytenbach We need to see Africa as it is – in all its brutality, excesses, riches, horror, humiliation, poverty, despair, squalor, posturing and display, beauty, and creativeness. And this is a function of the imagination because we must make…
COLUMN: It’s not about saving N$200m, but about wasting it on cars
The story about President Hage Geingob saving N$200m when he suspended the purchase of cars for ministers and others was misunderstood. It is not about saving N$200m, but it about wasting it on cars under the circumstances. Many people hailed…
Tjihuiko, Kandetu punished over Muinjangue appointment
Caught in-between… Ester Muinjague The Ovaherero Traditional Authority says Bob Kandetu and former Nudo MP Arnold Tjihuiko connived with President Hage Geingob’s administration to capture the former chairperson of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation Ester Muinjangue to accept the deputy minister’s…
What if there is no post-Covid-19?
It is dismaying and discouraging that most people are focusing on post-Covid-19 while ignoring now. What if there is not post-Covid-19? Will life stop while we wait for the next two years for Covid-19 to dissipate? I mean, the influenza…
Police arrest 2 men for gang-rape of 12-year-old
The Namibian police have arrested two men aged 22 and 23 years old at Uis in connection with the rape of a 12-year-old girl. In the incident that happened at Uis, it is alleged that the two men gang-raped the…
Putting parliament online proving to be expensive
Some ICT companies are charging as much as N$20 000 per day to put parliament online, National Assembly spokesperson David Nahogandja has said. The National Assembly has been affected by Covid-19 and this time the tabling of the national budget…
Dr Andrew Niikondo now Nust acting vice-chancellor
The Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) Council has appointed Dr Andrew Niikondo as the acting vice-chancellor. Dr Niikondo’s appointment came after the expiry of Morne Du Toit’s acting term on 18 May 2020. Nust has had no substantive…
Parliament to sit for budget on 26 May
The National Assembly that was supposed to start sitting on Tuesday 19 May 2020 is now expected to do so on 25 May 2020. The speaker, Professor Peter Katjavivi said they postponed the resumption of parliament after the finance minister…
NWR says employee did not die from Covid-19
NWR Acting Managing Director Dr Matthias Ngwangwama Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) said one of its employees, Mr Lilungwe Brighton Tembwe, who passed on 15 May 2020 and was based at its Hardap Dam Resort, did not die from Covid-19. “NWR…
Column: Learning during “Lockdown” and beyond
With a phased “Lockdown’ for at least another few weeks, life really has transformed in Namibia for everyone. Well, life, as we know it across the globe, has changed forever. We have all been trying to keep busy, some still…