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03 Jul

The new normal must include support

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedCity of Windhoek

Jackie Wilson Asheeke The new normal must have a requirement that each person is our sister and brother’s keeper. We must move outside of selfishness and into a new world of standing together. If we cannot do this, anger will permeate the ‘newness’ of the normal. I read about a woman named Wilhelmina Afrikaner in Windhoek’s Dolam area who runs a self-initiated hostel where she takes care of young children in need. She gives them food, a fire to warm their hands and a place of safety. And yet, our dearly beloved City of Windhoek gave her a bill for…

03 Jul

Ling appointed new Hartlief MD

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedGunther Ling, Hartlief, Ohlthaver & List (O&L) Group

Staff Writer The Ohlthaver & List (O&L) Group has announced the appointment of Gunther Ling as Managing Director (MD) its subsidiary, Hartlief. Ling, who has been with the O&L Group for the last 13 years and started in the Finance Department of the Group, and later Broll Namibia, had been serving as MD of another O&L subsidiary, Namibia Dairies, for the last seven years. Thereafter, he joined Namibia Dairies as the Financial Director before moving into operations which gave him good insight into factory life and manufacturing and was then appointed Managing Director of Namibia Dairies from 2014 to 2019.…

03 Jul

Savvy Banking Saves FNB Customers Money

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedFNB Namibia

Staff writer FNB Namibia has announced that it will cut prices across a number of its banking services and fees from 1 July 2020. The bank said with the updated pricing structure, it aims to offer more value and simplicity to customers when it comes to its banking fees, and thus has changed its pricing to reflect this. “FNB also altered its fee structures to facilitate the shift from cash transactions to electronic transfers and cashless payments.We are cognisant that customers are facing financial pressure, therefore several free transactions will provide relief to many. The financial impact of COVID-19 has…

03 Jul

Namibia’s long road to national reconciliation – Part 1

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedLubango, Namibia, SWAPO

Oiva Angula The two past weeks, Namibia’s National Assembly has been embroiled in a dramatic, sometimes bitter, debate about national reconciliation. This is not the first such debate since independence in 1990. Namibia seems to be burdened with a lingering wound of its past with some sections of society still crying for reconciliation, social integration and national healing. The great hope of a society based on social cohesion as promised at independence appears illusive for some Namibians. As a survivor of Swapo’s Lubango prison camps, Tangeni Mureko, 49, needed no reminder of how painful it was to live; how terrible…

03 Jul

NWR launches NamLeisure Corporate card

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedNamibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR), NamLeisure Corporate card

Staff Writer Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) has grown its NamLeisure offering by introducing a NamLeisure Corporate card that is aimed at giving companies a discount on their meetings, incentives, conferences and events at any of its establishments that are spread across the country. Considering the high impact that COVID-19 has had on business, NWR saw the need to introduce a product that would be able to assist companies as they map their way forward post COVID-19. “Over the years, we have been receiving requests from companies to make use of our facilities for different purposes. After holding some consultative engagements,…

03 Jul

MTC launches TikTok bundles

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedMobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC), TikTok

Staff Writer Driven by unswerving need to provide ever evolving solutions in the Namibia market, Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) recently launched its customized MTC TikTok Data Bundles, available for postpaid and prepaid customers. The bundles which are exclusively for use for the TikTok Mobile Application, are available for all Prepaid and Postpaid customers, and the validity of the bundle according to the company , will only start once the customer utilizes the TikTok App. “In addition, MTC, until 23 September 2020, will offer any customer that purchased any TikTok bundle an additional 10% of data.” TikTok is a short-form video…

26 Jun

A family hair studio just for you!

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedMaerua Mall, Morna Ikosa, ZZI Kids Hair Studio

Jackie Wilson Asheeke ZZI Kids Hair Studio opened its doors at Maerua Mall on 30 March 2019 and it is now evolving into a hair care center for all customers of all ages. Morna Ikosa, the co-owner of ZZI Family Hair Studio has worked hard to get the business running well. Go support this black owned business and give them a try. Studio did great work with kids for more than a year. Go there and see the photos of the terrific hairstyles done for the young ones. They are beautiful. Giving service to kids and keeping them engaged and…

26 Jun

Observatory: Abortion, what are people really afraid of?

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedGod, Minister of Health

Thandizo Kawerama This week, social media was set a buzz as a petition going around to legalise abortion in Namibia gained mass support. Heightening contrasting opinions online was Health Minister Shangula’s declaration that he would indeed be in support of the legalisation of abortion if rallied by women. His pro-choice stance on the matter coupled with the petition going around various platforms, was a recipe for social media to once again hop on to its favourite topic, the female body. With the Minister of Health’s support and with many Namibian women openly being pro-choice as opposed to previous years when…

26 Jun

Earn your keep

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedCabinet, Lexus, Mercedes, Range Rover

Jackie Wilson Asheeke I don’t give a fig whether a politician has a Mercedes, Lexus, Range Rover, expensive cell phone, cattle farm, or whatever other trappings of wealth. If they have access to cars, drivers, school fees or no taxes as perks of their job so what? The jealousy must be set aside. The focus must be on earning what you get. People must only expect a hard day’s pay for a hard day’s work. If someone lands a job that pays a certain salary, there are performance markers that must be achieved. If they achieve it and get their…

26 Jun

National Resistance only first phase of National Revolution

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedindependence, Namibian

Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro Did March 21, 1990, the day of Namibian independence, usher in the first phase of the national revolution? Comes the question cautious to presume this may have been the case because of the lack of ideological clarity, if not lack of ideology all together in Namibia on national issues. There were two major epochs of national resistance. First against German colonialism and imperialism and occupation, and subsequently against the Apartheid South African regime’s occupation and de facto annexation of South West Africa as its first province. The National Resistance had in its first and launching stage vanguard true…