Recently Namibia's young business and lifestyle Gems Magazine appropriately celebrated its second anniversary in Tauben Glen.
The Professional Provident Society Insurance company last week donated an amount of N$25 000 to the Polytechnic of Namibia to upgrade the reception area and training facility of the Center for Entrepreneurial Development (CED).
Last week the director of the National Arts Gallery emphasised the importance of accurate documentation of the country's art heritage, as well as the protective role of the police and customs officers to safeguard artifacts.
Two Namibian community and institutional theatre representatives have been co-opted into a Finnish-Namibian developmental partnership and social innovation project to be produced early next year.
More than 50 diplomas were awarded to successful candidates when the College of the Arts held its 5th graduation ceremony in Katutura last week.
Old Mutual this week awarded 10 bursaries to deserving Namibians to study in various fields of critical importance to Namibia' development.
Let's end the year with hope that art will with renewed vigour start the new year as a priority in better helping to heal the nation in all communities and societies at large.
Desmund Desideris Andreas, the Langarm and Namastap musician, strongly believes that artists should be original, because the originality of an artist gives the distinctiveness to his/her listeners.
GTFs - Ghetto Fabulous, as their fans know them, is a kwaito dance group that creates shock waves and explosion with its dance performances. Dancers flare up any crowd when they step to their beat.
THE final results of the 2009 Presidential and National Assembly elections are expected today, a marathon race that indeed it was.
As World AIDS Day, December 1, 2009 is commemorated, there is a need to reflect on the Namibian HIV/AIDS situation with the intention of renewing commitment to the fight against this pandemic in the country.
Congratulations Namibia! Kudos to the ECN! Notwithstanding, the arduous, meticulous and painstaking counting and verification process, mainly due to the tedious tender ballots as part of the logistical aspect of the electoral process, Namibians have done it again and proved those skeptics, alarmists and prophets of doom wrong.
What are the causes of corruption? Why do people choose to be corrupt rather than honest? In Namibia, corruption has been a topic of discussion and in most cases in churches pastors are preaching and praying that corruption has to be eradicated, in classrooms, university lectures and parliaments, but has there been a discussion on what really causes corruption in our beautiful land of the brave?
AFTER going around the Karas Region for about a month, I am still battling to understand the logic of job allocations by big companies in the south. Practically all jobs - in the fishing, mining, the grape projects along the Orange River and elsewhere - are occupied by people from other areas. There are virtually no southern indigenes in these industries.
THE Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) intends to take the Otavi Municipality to court for allegedly failing to adequately service the town's informal settlement residents.
Diamond prices are recovering from last year's slump as demand for precious stones picks up on the back of a global economic recovery, the newly appointed head of Angolan state-owned diamond firm Endiama said yesterday.
The following are the latest figures, at the time of going to press, on the number of votes each party and presidential candidate have so far received of the total votes counted and verified by the Electoral Commission of Namibia.
The Government will launch the long-awaited state-owned mining company this month.
ONE of the most interesting aspects of the Namibian election drama now rounding up its last act, is surely not the predictable anti-climax of the outcome, but what is most striking to the careful observer is surely the underwhelming turnout of the masses.
SEVEN people were injured when a car they were travelling in left the road and overturned on Friday.
IN order to prevent new HIV infections in Namibia, conversations have to form a part of the country's HIV prevention strategy.
WIRE art, especially the art of wire-car making, has been passed down from father to son in Katutura, the surrounding informal settlements, and in fact throughout Namibia, for years.
FORMER Supreme Court Judge of Appeal and High Court Judge President Pio Teek remains in legal limbo after his long-pending trial failed to proceed as planned in the High Court in Windhoek this week.
WOW, 20 years since we first voted in Namibia. We are all still here and not doing so badly! But it was this 20 year interval that got me thinking as it seems, on reflection, to conveniently divide life into the four stages of man. Infancy, adolescence, adultery and, well something!
54 seats for Swapo, down from 55.
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