Insight
A wasted decade
THE most important instrument through which parliament can express its lack of support to a government is the vote-of-no-confidence. MPs are currently pushing a vote-of-no-confidence motion in the government that
Nhlanhla Maake’s epistolary novel
South African writer, Nhlanhla Maake’s novel, Letters to My Sister, is what is called an epistolary novel. This is a novel told through the medium of letters written by one
Two contemporary Namibian poets
I must admit that up until my first visit to Namibia just after 2007, and on other subsequent visits, my only idea of Namibian literature did not go beyond the
Media must raise the bar!
LEGEND has it that one fine day back in the 17th century, a young man witnessed an apple fall from a tree, an occurrence which was by no means miraculous.
The government’s war on crime
Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro needs to assure us that the government has declared a state-of-emergency on crime not only because of the recent increase in numbers of members of police
The pocket Oxford Book of Prayer: A review
I had planned this week to return to the subject of life in Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya, but have had to postpone that commitment again, as the sequence of pieces is
Marquez’s black characters
Through a chance reading, I noticed that Gabriel Marquez’s fourth short story collection, Strange Pilgrims, published originally in Spanish in 1992, is an amazing book. It plays around the merger
What makes political parties tick?
On Friday 30 July 2021 a Facebook friend, Mokhosi Mohapi, posted on Facebook. I saw the post before going into a meeting and wanted to engage on the issues raised
Vaccination will save your life
When was the last time you crossed a busy highway without looking both ways before you stepped into traffic? You might be lucky enough to make it across without a
Neologisms: Part Two
I’ll kick off this week with another limerick:An old gourmet dining at Crewe cried out “there’s a fly in my stew!”Said the waiter “don’t shout and wave it about, or
