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FNB House Price Index shows green shoots in house prices
16 Dec

FNB House Price Index shows green shoots in house prices

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Staff Writer The FNB House Price Index recorded a 12-month average growth of 0.7 percent year-on-year as at September 2020. This is the first time in nearly three years that the index marks a growth territory. “The rebound in house prices further affirms our earlier view, as highlighted in the prior quarterly publication, that house price deceleration has seemingly reached a pinnacle. This brings the national weighted average house price to N$1 233 106 as at September 2020” said Frans Uusiku, FNB Market Researcher. “The increase in house prices has been partly fuelled by the completion of new developments in…
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Tribute to late Comrade Mandela Kapere
15 Dec

Tribute to late Comrade Mandela Kapere

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Dr Elijah Ngurare I was stormed by shock when I learned that Mandela Kapere had died. I could not believe it. It sounded very unreal as Henny Seibeb was telling me about it. It was a shocking news and still is. I have seen Mandela Kapere growing up in the streets of Arandis. His father was then a Commissioner for the Western Region what is now Erongo Region. The late Mandela Kapere was amongst the cream of young people who have grown in the minefield of Africa’s youth politics in order to become leaders of the continent at various levels.…
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Winds of Change in //Kharas and Hardap
15 Dec

Winds of Change in //Kharas and Hardap

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Fritz H. Dausab The Landless People’s Movement, the second newest political party in Namibia, less then two years old currently has done what many older parties have never achieved. The achievement of winning 12 Regional Councilors and 39 Local Authority Councilors is a loud voice from disenfranchised voiceless in Namibia. The two regions of //Kharas and Hardap are coming of age after 30 years of oppression. As these winds of change has brought political change in these two regions, in terms of social and economic changes, the Landless People’s Movement have been in tune with its Regional and Local Authority…
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When farming becomes a livelihood
15 Dec

When farming becomes a livelihood

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Staff Writer Elia Kamati, a loan beneficiary of Agribank’s Emerging Farmers Retail Financing Product (ERFP), left his formal employment to live his passion, which is farming. He is currently a full-time farmer in the Mpungu district of the Kavango-West region, where he farms with livestock, cattle and goats. “I was a permanent employee for one of the insurance companies for 15 years and in 2007, I resigned from my full-time job to concentrate on my dream and passion which is farming and now am a full-time farmer,” Kamati narrated. Through the ERFP loan from Agribank, Kamati bought 38 heifers and two…
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12 Dec

Recipe – Baked Lemon-Pepper Chicken Thighs and Rice

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Jackie Wilson Asheeke I have been into making meals in one pot. For me, the days of having different pots and pans on the stove top or in the oven as I prepare a meal, are over. I am always on the hunt for simpler and inexpensive meals. The one in this recipe made a great dinner or my family earlier this week. I have to juggle with family members who are allergic to various things or who are picky eaters, so when I search for recipes I have to read every detail and then shop carefully, reading all ingredients…
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12 Dec

Confessions of a Couch Kitten: End of year fatigue

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Khanyiswsa Mogotsi One thing about end-of-year fatigue is that it is very, very real. The feeling of your body losing all power to keep pushing and stay as productive as it was throughout the whole year. As a society we have become so used to December and the festive season being our relax and unwind time, that our bodies have become trained into losing steam at a certain time of the year and only have the attention span for issues that include fun and entertainment. The only downside with this year’s end-of-year fatigue is that although most of us are…
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12 Dec

All ideologues must rally against political sojourn of opportunism

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Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro Indeed very strange bedfellows. This is how Yours Truly Ideologically can sum up the recent horse trading among the various political parties and associations, especially in the City of Windhoek, following the results of the Regional and Local Authority elections. As alluded to in a foregoing installment, these results were not conclusive in terms of returning an overall winner who could make decisive radical transformational decisions. Decisions to deliver in the short term the residents of the City from abject poverty and squalor. And ultimately from the capitalist yoke. The ink on the results of the elections had…
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12 Dec

The Time Traveler: Self-care

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Hugh Ellis I have often had issues with the ‘self-care industry’ and the self-care posts of ‘influencers’ on social media. For a start, some of its favorite things to say seem patently untrue. ‘You can’t pour from an empty cup.’ Except throughout my youth, I witnessed people pouring from very empty cups; it was the most disadvantaged, marginalized, run-down, beat-down-upon people I saw taking care of others. Certainly not the upwardly-mobile types who could ‘afford’ to. ‘You can’t love others unless you love yourself.’ Is this true? Who totally, unreservedly loves themselves in these confusing times? Yet we still manage…
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12 Dec

Toxic masculinity

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Uatjiua Kasete This topic has been weighing heavily on my mind, not sure why. I think it was ignited by Harry Styles debacle. The comments made, made me realize the levels of toxic masculinity around me and how that destructive behavior is such a social norm. I am almost certain that a large majority of men have been raised with the toxic beliefs of what a man should be. Tough, emotionless and ‘manly’ (whatever that means) and if one displays any characteristic outside of that box automatically one is seen as less than or “different”. As if that is such…
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12 Dec

Santa buried by COVID and Trump

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Jackie Wilson Asheeke In the American media, the only subjects are Donald Trump and the Covid-19 vaccine. In all the Trump/vaccine verbiage, Santa is lost. As I sit in my mom’s house in Delaware during this strange run-up to Christmas and New Year’s holidays, I have been in 14-day self-isolation. During that time, I was able to rest, read and watch media reports from a variety of sources. I was also able to shout my love down the hall from my bedroom to loved ones who came to my wing of the house to say hello. Usually, by this time…
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