Hate speech in Namibia – where do we draw the line?
BY YVONNE DAUSAB and ELEANOR DENNIS – The Namibian society has come a long way from our racially charged past. Every Namibian now enjoys the equal protection of his or her constitutional rights regardless of age, sex, colour, race, tribe, disability or any...
Reflections on Namibia’s media freedom, free expression situation on World Press Freedom Day, 2018
BY FREDERICO LINKS – NAMIBIA remains a beacon of freedom of expression and media freedom on a continent where both are in short supply and continually threatened. Yet, we are now forced to take stock of where the country is headed in terms of these freedoms....
ACTION condemns the use of an apartheid-era law to gag the media and undermine public interest
ACTION ALERT: As many Namibians are no doubt aware by now, last week the Namibia Central Intelligence Service (NCIS) attempted to get a gag order from the High Court to prevent The Patriot weekly newspaper from publishing an article related to the NCIS’s handling of...
Best practices for greater access
BY JANE MUNGABWA – “We (Namibia) have the chance of learning from the experiences of others”, was the view of the ACTION Coalition Chairperson, Frederico Links, with regard to the access to information framework in Namibia. Links expressed this opinion...
Working together for better access
BY JANE MUNGABWA – “There is a need for creating an environment to facilitate the implementation of an Access to information law prior to its implementation”, these were the sentiments of ICT minister Stanley Simataa, during a courtesy visit by a delegation from...
The rise of the Namibian surveillance state (Part III)
BY FREDERICO LINKS – The evidence that Namibian intelligence and state security forces are stockpiling and deploying sophisticated communications interception and surveillance technologies continues to grow, even as the lawfulness of such practices remains...
Celebration or conservation?
BY VIDA DE VOSS – The neologism ‘unbirthday’ was coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass. Given its logic, I think it is fair to argue that every day not focused on women’s issues is a day on which women are implicitly not acknowledged. Instead,...
The rise of the Namibian surveillance state (Part II)
BY FREDERICO LINKS – On 30 June 2015, the day he announced the appointment of Philemon Malima as director general of the Namibia Central Intelligence Service, President Hage Geingob stated to the media: “I will not allow anyone to spy on Namibians but they...
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