Murmuring and shuffling, the men bunched together in front of the television camera and recording mobile phones pointed at them. About 60 of them gathered together beside a jungle gym on the playground of Kuisebmond...
Windhoek
Swapo – Namibia’s sinking ship
Namibia’s liberation movement is quickly losing ground At the first cabinet meeting of 2020, on 4 February, Namibian president Hage Geingob, in a custom he had started in his first full year in office in 2015, titled...
Namibia: justice delayed
In September 2015 the Namibian High Court, in the country’s capital Windhoek, found Geoffrey Mwilima, a former opposition parliamentarian, and 29 others guilty in the so-called Caprivi treason trial. The court...
EDITORIAL: The lifeboat of informality
African governments and their formal business sectors often hold up the informal sector as the nemesis of formalised growth and organised development – yet for many citizens on the continent (and elsewhere),...
The transformation of Windhoek’s Eveline Street
A developing leisure economy is changing a downtown area in Namibia for the better South Africa’s cities have several streets that are well known for their leisure businesses, entertainment and nightlife, among...
Namibia’s rocky relationships
Despite concerns around corruption and looting of environmental resources, Namibia is determined to forge stronger bonds with Eastern nations, especially China and North Korea Namibia has preached non-alignment and...
