Picking up the Spear of Warrior Nehale lyaMpingana
NICCOLO Machiavelli the Italian philosopher, explained what guides human behaviour especially in revolutionary processes, submitting that generally men follow the successful paths of others –...
View ArticleGreater sin of Political Freedom Fighters
I just returned from South Africa where I spent a week on an academic visit. In Stellenbosch, I met Dr. Niel Barnard, former head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) of the Apartheid government...
View ArticleWill our graduates be counted amongst the significant?
WITH poverty, general despondency and unemployment amongst our youth being our naked public secret, there exists meagre analysis on the why question. Much focus has been on systematic failure of state...
View ArticleAre we witnessing the arrival of the ‘Nyayo’ Dictatorship?
On Sunday, 07 June 2015, I witnessed an ugly scene at the Goreagab Dam recreational park. The City Police chief Abraham Kanime ordered the closure of the public park apparently on instruction of a...
View ArticleCultural Consequences of Wealth Declaration
WEEKS have now passed after President Hage Geingob declared his millions. Some congratulated him for this unprecedented move. This column has previously indicated that his move deserves recognition for...
View ArticleKapana has arrived on Air Namibia
MANY of you may have forgotten that there exists a cabinet member called Mr. Erkki Nghimtina. Such state of affairs can be explained by a common phrase; “out of sight is out of mind.” Mr. Nghimtina did...
View ArticleSpare a thought for African Americans
WHAT would you do if you are to wake up one day and boom; you had no language other than English? How would life be if you had no village to go to and you are unfamiliar to any traditional practice and...
View ArticleLogistical and Legal Headaches of Affirmative Repositioning
IN 1961 historian E.H Carr published a provocative book titled ‘What is history’ undermining the idea that historians possess absolute objectivity and authority over the history they study. If Carr was...
View ArticleIs Haitota yaKalola the new Stalin?
HAITOTA yaKalola; the name I discovered on Facebook as apparently belonging to our Inspector General Sebastian Ndeitunga. This youth asked; “Why did Haitota yaKalola change to Sebastian Ndeitunga?” The...
View ArticleThe Careless Profit driven Capitalist Bunch
ON the 16th July 2015, I returned from a Roundtable discussion organised by the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO) held in Cape Town, South Africa, the previous day. The Roundtable discussion...
View ArticleWhere were we? For Real?
Namibians have been treated to spectacular political developments. This is more so when the events in the ruling SWAPO party are concerned. Summarised in short, this has had to do with two things;...
View ArticleEducated and fearless youth must arrive at the NYC
After leading and participating in the physical removal of trees to make way for houses to be built as part of the 200 000 plots to be made available countrywide, we drove, on Sunday, to attend the...
View Article‘Growth At Home’ is False Consciousness
IT was Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral who warned Africans about false consciousness. False Consciousness used by Marxists in referring to the manner in which capitalist society uses material,...
View ArticleTribute to George Kambala and Dimbulukeni Nauyoma
THE state of the youth in our country is a sad one. There is serious doubt that anyone in the youth ministry will agree to publically deliver the State of the Youth in our country. The biscuit and cake...
View ArticleFighting Corruption – Sometimes Fight Fire with Fire
SATURDAY, 22 August 2015, we were in Ongwediva at Charles Anderson Combined School hall hosting an information sharing session with the youth on the youth generational programme – Affirmative...
View ArticleSalutations Commissioner Ndahangwapo Kashihakumwa
IN 2011 I returned home from the University of Stellenbosch where I completed a Master’s degree in Political Science. There were several options of working and staying in South Africa. At the time our...
View ArticleDo not bureaucratise Town Hall meetings
I cannot claim to know President Hage Geingob. In fact, those who use the liberation struggle mantra in every discussion, even when the internet is down, will be quick to tell us about how well they...
View ArticleThe name is Desiderius Shinyemba Amutenya
If departed great leaders are to be given recordings of how they are opportunistically quoted by political climbers to dupe the masses, they would be so heartbroken such that they would want to have...
View ArticleDealing with the Ya Ndakolo Tendency
LAST Saturday, 28 September 2015 that was, more than 450 delegates from all the 14 regions and 121 constituencies congregated at the Dorado Campus of the International University of Management (IUM) to...
View ArticleFear nothing – Do not be Afraid, Marcus Munenge!
ON Tuesday, 10 November 2015, in The Namibian newspaper, brother Markus Munenge wrote a piece titled ‘Paulo Freire through the skewed lens of Amupanda’, a response to an earlier piece I wrote wherein I...
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