Category: Opinion
Unconventional Thoughts: The Flooding, Who is to blame, Engineers, Hydrologists or Town Planners?
By: Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka The last year’s flooding of Wernihil Shopping Mall in the capital city got people questioning Engineers and the mighty city planning, furthermore the yearly flooding of the northern and eastern regions. Someone posted that “engineers should…
The Unconventional And Unorthodox Thoughts: Dear African Entrepreneur
By: Tony O. Elumelu 2022 was not an easy year. We escaped the pandemic, but none of us were untouched by global events. Prices have risen frighteningly, the cost of doing business has increased, and customers are stretched We…
Here Is To A Merry Christmas And A Prosperous 2023
By: Megameno Shinana Christmas is around the corner and just hours away we will embrace 2023 but holly-molly, what a hectic year it has been. Granted, 2022 has not been a pretty year for most of us and the economy…
Villages: The Dumping Sites of Modern Mass Events
By: Agnes Shekupe Shivute The biggest events and feasts are hosted here in the villages: weddings, family reunions, and funerals among other gatherings – generating a substantial amount of waste to the environment. Unfortunately, villages have no red or…
Opinion: On The Fall Of Curt Von François
By: Benedick M Louw It has been now more than seven years since the public debate around the removal of a statue, a debate brought to the fore recently by former Swanu president Usutuaije Maamberua in 2015, when he made…
Being Brave, an Intrinsic Requirement of the Internal Audit Function
By: Marilize van Schalkwyk If you read about the latest trends in internal auditing, you will find many articles about agile auditing, robotic process automation, artificial intelligence and other technologies aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the…
Records, Information and Knowledge Management Diary
By: Chris Matengu ”Past records are evidence of transactions, and they are the foundation of planning for today and tomorrow” An organisation will not function effectively in the absence of good record-keeping. Efficient management of records is, without doubt, a…
The Unconventional and Unorthodox Thoughts IS LEADERSHIP LEARNED OR A GENETIC THING?
By: Wilhelm Mwashekuna I am not yet a real leader as I only have a team of two under me, but I have been consuming a lot of information on how to be a good leader if not a better…
The Unconventional and Unorthodox Thoughts Protect, promote, produce and plant indigenous flora
By: Agnes Shekupe Shivute “Why are you planting baobab seedlings when they grow naturally and need no nurturing?” asked a villager. It turned out to be a longer-than-expected conversation. Baobab, bird plum, jackal berry, marula and makalani palm trees are…
Opinion: Transforming Namibian rural areas through agriculture
By: Hanks Saisai As the country charts forward toward the realisation of Vision 2030, it has become evident that many rural areas in Namibia continue to experience an alarming rate of rural-to-urban migration. Rural-to-urban migration is defined as the…