Henning Melber

KHADIJA SHARIFE: What is your opinion on the changes made to the Regional Councils Act allowing the president to appoint regional governors?

10th December marks the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

If anyone still needed evidence that Africa plays its active role in our world, Pambazuka News is the living proof. As an interactive forum for debate, its interventions from many different spheres of life are speaking truth to power without compromising true values of emancipation.

‘Solidarity, Freedom, Justice’ was the guiding motive for the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organisation) in its struggle for self-determination and independence, guided by the intention to seize legitimate political power in a sovereign state to govern in the int

The current debate around a Basic Income Grant (BIG) in Namibia stands for a significant discourse. Critics tend to sweep essential parts of this discourse under the carpet. They tend to downplay if not ignore the fundamental value debate it touches upon.

It was with a heavy heart but without remorse that I accepted this role to act as a proponent against the motion. I could not wish for more than being able to support it. When we celebrated our hard won independence 20 years ago, we shared similar hopes and expectations.

21 March 1990 marked Namibia’s Independence Day. When celebrating the long awaited moment of our hard won independence twenty years ago, most Namibians shared similar hopes and expectations.

Swapo (South West Africa People's Organisation) of Namibia has been in charge of Namibian politics since independence in March 1990.

With Namibia's parliamentary and presidential elections on 27–28 November, hype and obsession mount by the day.

Twenty years ago, South Africa's occupation of Namibia came to an end. Less than five years later, the apartheid regime was voted out of power in South Africa itself. This year, elections both in South Africa during April and in Namibia at the end of November invite an analytical overview.