Opinions

Rebekka Bengela Mining is an important sector in Namibia, but it is also an industry that may have a damaging impact if not carefully safeguarded. Economically, mining's contribution to the Namibian GDP has been phenomenal. Despite the mining sector contracting by 1.2% in 2024, over the past five years (2019-2023), diamonds and uranium were the most significant mineral commodities contributing to Namibia’s economy.  In 2023, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (“KPCS”) revealed that Namibia (having the richest known marine diamond deposits in the world, estimated to total more than 80 million carats) is among the top five African diamond exporters,…

Ndatyoonawa Tshilunga-Nelumbu The evolution of financial theories and concepts is a much-overlooked matter in the ever-dynamic and developing world.  Societies are ever changing and attaching new dimensions to common words and ways of life in alignment with our nature, of course.  In my view the most underrated and misrepresented financial term, financial literacy, for example, has seen major transformation and evolution since its inception in the apartheid era but is still not receiving the sovereignty and respect it deserves. Back then under the regime of the Van Trothas and co., financial literacy was capped to represent home budgeting and basic…

Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro WITHERTO Epukiro? Yours Truly Ideologically cannot but pose the question. Seeing the evident shocking state of stagnation, if not decline, of the Epukiro Constituency socio-economically. Definitely impacting on body soul of the Constituency like the spirituality, culture and indeed the mental health of its inhabitants. Because, more than anything, the constituency cannot be said to be anything better than a socio-economic, and by extension, also cultural and spiritual ruin. Underpinned, foremost, by nothing but lack of socio-economic progress. It has been a good 15 years now since it assumed and/or was given a constituency status of its own…

PAUL T. SHIPALE (with inputs by Folito Nghitongovali Diawara Gaspar) A persistent paradox defines the African political landscape; the ballot box, a symbol of popular will, has become a theatre where the deep yearning for change clashes with systems engineered to resist it. The recent electoral episodes in Tanzania, where President Samia Suluhu Hassan secured a contested 97% victory to absolutely no-one's surprise, and Cameroon, where the Constitutional Council proclaimed the re-election of 92-year-old President Paul Biya, the world's oldest head of state, for an eighth successive term, despite it being part of the long-term pattern, the official outcome, and…