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10 Dec

End the global war on our bodies

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Alna Dall and Nyasha Chingore* As the world ends commemoration of the 30th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism to end violence against women this week, it is apparent that sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) continues to have far reaching consequences, not only for survivors, but on the entire society. To appreciate how SGBV has affected global societies and economies over the last 30 years, an understanding of how women and other vulnerable and marginalised populations including the key populations have been systematically denied their rights to bodily autonomy and integrity (BAI) is needed. Unless BAI and sexual and reproductive…
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04 Dec

Radical socio-economic transformation attainable with right class consciousness

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To give Namibia’s early resistance advocates, none of whom exist today, and latter day liberation/freedom proponents and agitators if not agents provocateurs, and today’s agents of change, whoever they are and may be, and/or ought to be, the benefit of the doubt, there can be no denying that the country’s basic document, the Constitution, which paved the way or heralded the country’s independence in 1990, is as good as could have been expected in its times. Yours Truly Ideologically cannot but re-emphasise the notion in its times. These times being nationalist political times, when the pre-occupation was national colonial resistance…
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28 Nov

Black faces on company, corporate boards for what sake and at what expense?

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Yours Truly Ideologically cannot but just welcome the information in the Simonis Storm Securities revealing that the Nictus Holdings Limited is the only listed Namibian company without any previously disadvantaged person on its board of directors for what it is, just information. Because Yours Truly Ideologically has no illusion what Nictus is, has been and would for a long time be. A bastion of Afrikaner empowerment and capitalism. Thus in the final analysis this information is just academic. Academic and of interest if at all to policymakers and politicians only to gather dusts like many others in government offices’ shelves.…
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NamibRe Commemorates 20 years of Being the Preferred reinsurer
25 Nov

NamibRe Commemorates 20 years of Being the Preferred reinsurer

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Namibia National Reinsurance Corporation Limited “NamibRe” celebrated its 20th Anniversary earlier this November 2021 with its local and international partners and stakeholder in the beautiful town of the Erongo Region, Swakopmund, Namibia. As part of 20th Anniversary celebration, NamibRe hosted delegates from across the African continent and beyond, to launch the Inaugural NamibRe CEO Roundtable. The event was attended by more than (100) hundred delegates, most of whom attended in person while the others attended the event virtually. In total, the event was attanded by delegates from more than eight (8) African countries and the middle east. The countries include:…
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21 Nov

Whither to Namibia, is there ever a point of halting and/or return?

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A young man last week lost his life in Walvis Bay over a vetkoek. He grabbed a vetkoek from a street vendor and while trying to get away to go and enjoy, which may have been his first eat in how many days, who knows, and indeed the last, he was hit by a car. A sad story indeed! Many a times our government has been priding itself in the fact people in the country do not die from hunger. A young lad lost his life after grabbing something to eat which in the end he could not enjoy having…
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GIPF members’ Data Integrity, a critical step in achieving service excellence
14 Nov

GIPF members’ Data Integrity, a critical step in achieving service excellence

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Owen Sikanda The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) is a defined benefit scheme with guaranteed pension benefits. The Fund guarantees a monthly pension upon retirement, and a monthly pension for life to spouse(s) of deceased members. One of the Fund’s key values is “service excellence” and in order for GIPF to achieve this, government institutions and participating employers are critical stakeholders who are tasked with providing vital information to the Fund through their Human Resource (HR) practitioners. The HR practitioners are also encouraged to contact the Fund when the need arises to schedule HR practitioners training. GIPF believes that HR…
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14 Nov

Unionism vs opportunism, only ideological workers can truly liberate themselves!

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Yours Truly Ideologically chose this week to look at the mushrooming of trade unions not knowing that this week would rob the country of one of her gallant revolutionary souls by the Name of Ignatius Shixwameni. Many tributes has since been pouring testifying to his revolutionary spirit. But few dare to put this spirit in its proper ideological context. Except for the Swanu President, Tangeni Iijambo who referred to Shixwameni as a fellow communist and socialist. Indeed a socialist Shixwameni was, not by fashion and fads but by conviction. And that is why he turned out to be a principled…
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A missed opportunity for Africa? . . . as ILO plum job eludes trail-blazing judge
10 Nov

A missed opportunity for Africa? . . . as ILO plum job eludes trail-blazing judge

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Moses Magadza Recently news from Botswana media indicated that Justice Oagile Key Dingake, a Motswana now serving as an international judge abroad, was one of the three short-listed candidates Botswana was considering fielding for the then vacant post of Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The Secretary General of the Botswana Federation of Public, Private and Parastatal Sector Unions (BOFEPUSO), Tobokani Rari, was quoted as saying they had been consulted on who was the best candidate Botswana could field and they held out the name of Dingake, one of the most revered and respected jurists in the world.…
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08 Nov

Can the country really be wishing for the recovery of Capitalism?

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“The whole world has been a modern slave plantation disguised as a sophisticated political economy. The governments are modern day fiefdoms exercising autocratic control over their unenlightened slaves. Man has become so gullible through a false consciousness of living a better life, that he failed to see the deceit that was perpetrated against him. Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Thomas D'Urfey's song "Old MacDonald had a Farm" depicted in an allegorical way the development of a new form of enslavement that escaped the intellectual understanding of even the academics whose eyes were glued to an illusory utopia. Like the average man…
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30 Oct

Most MPs dismally miskicking and missing Reparations ball!

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It has been becoming crystal clear since the beginning of the debate for Genocide, Apology and Reparations (GAR) in the National Assembly for more than a month now, that this debate was, has never been and is not meant and nor bound to be head and ultimately culminate in a constructive progressive, if not radical consensual solution. If anything while the debate should have crystalised and constellate into ideas towards the way forward, from the verbiages of many honourable members of this August House, this far, with a few exceptions, their contributions at best has been nothing less and but…
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