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Rising Against Giants: The Essential Disruption in Namibia’s Business Landscape
22 Aug

Rising Against Giants: The Essential Disruption in Namibia’s Business Landscape

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Nrupesh Soni, Facilit8 Namibia The unfolding saga at Hosea Kutako International Airport is more than a mere corporate dispute—it encapsulates a broader issue that reverberates throughout Namibia and indeed, the wider African continent. The tension between Paragon Aviation, a local entity, and Menzies, an international behemoth, over the airport's ground handling tender , goes beyond a mere contractual disagreement. Instead, it sheds light on the uphill battle local businesses face when striving to navigate the labyrinth of corporate colonialism. A persistent, if paradoxical, sentiment exists in parts of Africa, including Namibia: the belief that local firms, by virtue of their…
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11 Aug

Meaningful land acquisition, redistribution shall it ever transpire?

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Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro A draft progress report on the implementation of the 2018 Second National Land Conference resolutions is in circulation as has been leaked by the media recently. A good five years after the 2018 conference, the government seems only to awaken now, in the eyes of a cursory observation of an outsider, to the pretension fo wanting to eventually implement the said resolutions. How real such a reawakening is, only time will tell. But it would not be preposterous to think that the reawakening is only now on the eve of the country’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections next…
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Why the City of Windhoek Councillors Repeatedly Fail us
04 Jul

Why the City of Windhoek Councillors Repeatedly Fail us

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Isaack Kambwa Municipalities in Namibia are mandated to deliver services that meet basic communal needs such as housing, water and sanitation, land, electricity and infrastructur. The municipality as an institution is considered an engine for local development and central to service delivery. The government has implemented an elaborate statutory framework which operationalise the Municipalities. The powers of Municipal councils are regulated within this statutory framework, despite the powers conferred upon the councilors, they tend to fail in running their Municipalities. In case study research on the performance of councillors in the South Africa by Stellen press highlighted a number of…
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23 Jun

Approach your bank before defaulting on your payments

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Josef Kefas Sheehama This article will give you information and advice if you are behind with your monthly installments. From personal experience of 22 years as a Senior Credit, Credit Manager, and Bank Branch Manager, I have discovered that banks are always willing to take what they can get, giving you one last chance to get back on your feet. It is never too early or too late to contact your personal banker. You may be worried about talking to the bank. Hence, your first move should be to speak to your bank if you’re going through financial difficulties. It…
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23 Jun

Quo vadis regions in Namibia?

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Kae Matundu Tjiparuro Gobabis, known as the capital of the Cattle Country, as the region is popularly known whether the cap fits it or not, has lately been an atypical hustle and bustle. Inhabitants of the region, including the youth, converged on the town in what could turn out a pioneering initiative in creating for the youth in the region jobs. From which other regions could well take a leaf or two. Currently the region is said to be third on the entire country’s unemployment log. The scorch of unemployment in the country among the youth is well known with…
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16 Jun

Genocide being no crimethen, no reparations, period!

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Kae Matundu- Tjiparuro “Under international law, the concept of reparation flows from the breach of an international obligation. However, today’s outlawing and prohibition of genocide under international law did not exist in the years 1904 to 1908. The Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide of 9 December 1948, which entered into force for the founding signatories in 1951, and for Germany in 1955, does not apply retrospectively.” Reads the beginning of paragraph 23 of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in Geneva issued on the 1st of June,…
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08 Jun

World Ocean Day: What every Namibian should know and how we can all commemorate it.

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Mutindi Lydia Jacobs World Ocean Day is celebrated every year on June 8th to raise awareness about the importance of oceans and marine life. The noble idea came about during the Earth summit held in Rio De Janeiro Brazil, when Canada as a member state to the Summit, proposed the concept of a “World Ocean Day”. The intention for marking this day was and is, to celebrate the interdependence we have on oceans and seas, whilst spreading awareness on the depleting standards of marine life and ocean water. The United Nations General Assembly officially recognised the 8th of June as…
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05 Jun

World Bank’s dictates regarding NEEEFno more than Capitalism preservation

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Kae Matundu “World Bank study says no to NEEEF,” screamed the headline of the lead article of a local English daily. Yours Truly Ideologically could not but muse as to who the heck is the World Bank and what nerve and audacity if not arrogance they have to literally dictate to Namibia how she may or may not run her affairs? This to some may be seen as a friendly advice from a world institution to a friendly but sovereign nation. But there’s more to the seeming friendly advice by the World Bank. Simple dictatorship all in the final analysis…
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05 Jun

Growth, increased investments meaninglessunless accompanied by belief in socialist ethos

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Kae MatunduA government publication, titled Namibia: A Decade of Peace, Democracy and Stability, describing the decade 1990-2000 as such as the title. Relative Peace, Democracy, indeed have been in Namibia during the said decade. Regarding Prosperity Yours Truly Ideologically cannot be so sure. Also wondering if the government itself can be so sure about prosperity without qualifying it indeed. Because prosperity in Namibia since independence is not something obvious, and thus a commodity one can take for granted unless prosperity can be qualified as the widening of the gap of inequality and increasing impoverishment of the masses. Accompnaied and paralleled…
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05 Jun

“Only full reparation can remedy past wounds”

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Kae Matundu The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) Special Rapporteurs are requesting for answers from both the Namibian and German governments regarding the way in which they have been dealing with the issue of Genocide, Apology and Reparations. While it has written to both governments this February, this has become public only this month. But be that as it may be, the UN is raising pertinent questions as well as making very fundamental observations. Observations which descendants all along have been raising and impressing upon our Namibian government and its German counterpart. With regard to the Namibian government, they…
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