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...
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...
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...
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...
On the whole, while there are some positives to point to, the trend discernible on the ATI And FoX landscape is rather worrying As we head towards the end of 2016 it remains clear that access to information (ATI) and freedom of expression (FoX) retain their positions...
If mentorships and business development partnerships are to work and SMEs to grow and flourish then much more and better data is needed Namibia has been sliding dramatically down global economic competitiveness rankings over the last decade or so and this trend is set...
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