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Careful planning remains key to ensure emotional and financial readiness
09 Dec

Careful planning remains key to ensure emotional and financial readiness

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Growing numbers of millennial women — who are between 23 and 39 years old in 2020 — are choosing to start having children later in their lives. The average age of first-time mothers in many developed countries has risen to just over 30 this year. Furthermore, according to the Guttmacher Institute, more than 40 percent of women in the United States of America have reported delaying having children due to the outbreak of Covid-19. Research reveals that pandemic-related worries about finances and job stability as well as general unease about the future may be shifting how women feel about having…
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OBITUARY: Gone too soon – Mandela Kapere
08 Dec

OBITUARY: Gone too soon – Mandela Kapere

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Jackie Wilson Asheeke Mandela Kapere, a Member of Parliament, former Executive Chairperson of the National Youth Council (NYC), husband and father, son of loving parents, friend to many, and a talented younger leader in Namibia, died on the morning of Monday, December 7, 2020. This young man is gone to soon. The late Mandela Kapere wrote articles for the Observer Connect Magazine, a product of the Windhoek Observer. He was always a willing and insightful commentator on national issues. His overall vision, keen intellect, bold vision and self-confidence made him a good columnist and political analyst. This son of the…
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Growing relevance of the informal market – how can financial institutions remain relevant?
08 Dec

Growing relevance of the informal market – how can financial institutions remain relevant?

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Frans Uusiku The economic landscape has evolved in recent times and is becoming increasingly characterised by changing consumer tastes and preferences around the consumption of goods and services, combined with heightened level of entrepreneurial spirit, especially amongst women and youth in agriculture. These changing dynamics around value chain development across industries have an implication on the role of the banking sector as an important enabler and catalyst for economic growth. The reality is that the proliferation of informal side-line businesses in the form of hawkers, vendors, etc. has increased now more than ever as households seek alternative income sources due…
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Honey garlic pork chops – sticky and tasty!
05 Dec

Honey garlic pork chops – sticky and tasty!

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Jackie Wilson Asheeke Folks, I tried this recipe just last weekend. I cheated because I was pressed for time and bought a nice honey garlic sauce as a base. But I added the juices from the pork chop frying pan and more garlic. It made the sauce much better. This recipe is easy. Try it! According to the recipe book I used: “No marinating is needed, this recipe is an incredibly quick and delicious way to serve bone in or boneless pork chops — seared until golden then simmered and broiled (or grilled) in the most amazing honey garlic sauce!…
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05 Dec

Couch Cat – Thieves are snatching wigs!

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Jackie Wilson Asheeke I read that in some towns up North, thieves are snatching wigs off women’s head to resell them. Has life in Namibia sunk to this all-time low? First, let me stop laughing. Then, let me say, Yuck. Imagine wearing some unknown unhygienic hair from another sista’s lice, sweat, or dandruff filled scalp on your head? I mean really? It is a health risk to wear unwashed wig hair from someone else’s head. If some insane thief goes for my wig, I am goin’ completely ‘hood. I am takin’ off my shoes and running him down right there…
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05 Dec

Hail democratic pluralism, checkmate development

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Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro Which way now? Yours Truly Ideologically cannot but muse in the aftermath of the Regional and Local Authority Elections results, which by any means have not been conclusive in terms of any party winning a majority in most of the regional and local authority councils, The more things change (or seems to change), the more they remain the same. Yours Truly Ideologically observed in the last installment. Similarly the results cannot but invoke and echo same feelings. Because as alluded to in the opening paragraph, they are inconclusive. Yes, the voters may have spoken. But what exactly have…
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05 Dec

The Time Traveler: Much Ado About Nothing

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Hugh Ellis As a white Namibian - though I would prefer to be known simply as a Namibian - I am not in the least bothered by President Geingob’s recent remarks on white Namibians allegedly voting en masse against SWAPO. In October Geingob said he had noted with concern a supposed trend in which white Namibians have been registering themselves ‘in big numbers’ to vote in the regional and local elections. Geingob charged these people ‘declared war’ against the ruling party and want to vote for ‘anything else but SWAPO’. This was despite SWAPO making sure that white people ‘enjoy…
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05 Dec

Young and unemployed in a pandemic

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Khanyiswa Mogotsi We have reached the end of the year and I cannot help but release a sigh of relief after the year I and many other people have had. Although, I am aware that other people had a harder time navigating adjusting to life in the pandemic, I can only speak on how awful, depressing and poor my experience has been A little background context, I am a 22-year old final year student at NUST who has currently returned to her parents’ house because of the pandemic. At the start of the year, I had just started a new…
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05 Dec

Has Iipinge signaled Swapo’s response to its setbacks?

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Jackie Wilson Asheeke The social media comments of Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) secretary for educations Hofni Iipinge are destructive. He taunted newly elected local leaders by stating that they can do nothing without the Swapo controlled central government. He is doing a victory dance on the heads of people in Namibia who are desperate for support and reassurance from a stable government. He implied that Swapo would frustrate elected officials of other parties by blocking program funds meant to help the suffering Namibian people. Such statements tend to indicate that Iipinge has no idea of how political power works.…
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05 Dec

And so it begins

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Grab your political popcorn and prepare to watch the show. The Landless Peoples Movement (LPM) Leader Bernadus Swartbooi, ever the lightning rod for populist politics, now says that people who decide that they are too poor to buy land should take up residence on unoccupied state land. The Council led by Amupanda whose rise to fame began with just such an action must show his mettle. He must be definitive and speak from strength. He should step back, smile and put Swartbooi in charge of the entire effort. Let the people know about the Swartbooi Land Grabbing Program. Let the…
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