Why the barrage of vitriol
BY FREDERICO LINKS – What is it that makes the Namibian head of state feel so under attack at all the times that he feels the need to use every major national platform to bash the media and civil society at length. It has now certainly become clear to many that...
Whistleblower Protection – the danger of a bad example
BY FREDERICO LINKS – We’ve finally found the legal instrument from which Article 52 (1d) was copied, and it’s as bad an example as we suspected. Why do Namibian legal drafters use poorly-drafted and much-criticised laws from other countries as models for our...
MPs urged to refer Whistleblower Protection Bill to Standing Committee
The Whistleblower Protection Bill, which was tabled in the National Assembly on February 16, contains several serious flaws. In order to allow time to address these shortcomings, the ACTION Coalition of civil society organisations, is calling on the National Assembly...
Time to be awake!
The latest ruckus around land issues and growing public outrage around the general state of public sector governance are symptomatic of a public awakening The information deficits on the political landscape are becoming increasingly glaring and large sections of the...
Whistleblower Protection Bill under scrutiny
Following is an extract from the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) commentary of the Whistleblower Protection Bill An important indication of the commitment to whistleblower protection from Namibia’s politicians will come in the next few days as the Bill...
Our ‘rededication’ to greater access and free expression
We take up the message of ‘rededication’ and renew our efforts to ensure betterment where we can influence towards achieving it President Hage Geingob has anointed 2017 as ‘The Year of Rededication’, to the ideal of the ‘Namibian House’ in which no-one is supposedly...
The future of the internet hangs in the balance
(The following extract is taken from the latest report of the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG)) The world is embracing a truly digital future. Upwards of one billion new users and 20 billion devices are forecast to be online within five years. However,...
What Geingob’s media and access to information threat really indicates
President Geingob recently made a spectacle out of scornfully singling out The Namibian newspaper, labelling it amongst his “enemies”, and threatened to hold the draft Access to Information (ATI) law hostage over critical coverage of his administration. The episode...
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