The Baby Desert Jewels’ Under-21 national team, who competed in the Africa Qualifiers in Pretoria, South Africa, failed to secure a spot at the U21 World Cup in the United Kingdom. Only three countries qualified for the prestigious tournament, and The Baby Desert Jewels finished in sixth place at the recent Africa Qualifiers held from...
Former president Hifikepunye Pohamba told his Cabinet at a review meeting in 2006 that by failing to plan they would have planned to fail. If nothing else, the census summary the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) released on Wednesday shows that by treating the data gathering process as something ‘nice to have’ or an afterthought, the...
Over the last four years, 79% of pupils who wrote the Grade 11 national examinations have not qualified to proceed to top tertiary institutions or Grade 12. This represents 120 468 out of 152 686 pupils who sat for the exams. However, the number of pupils who qualify has doubled from 5 007 in 2020...
The announcement of exam results is a joyous occasion for many learners, however, others are forced to stare failure in the face. A local social worker says that even though parents and guardians might be disappointed, they should resist the urge to punish those who have failed. The announcement of exam results. It’s a sweet...
Arsenal missed out on the chance to return to the Premier League summit on Thursday, losing 2-0 to West Ham as Tottenham went down in a six-goal thriller at Brighton. Mikel Arteta’s Gunners were top of the tree at Christmas for a second successive year but trail leaders Liverpool by two points at the halfway...
Botswana and Namibia have bowed out of the qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympics after defeats on Tuesday, but two teams from the COSAFA region remain in contention … and both could make it. Namibia lost 2-0 in Morocco in the second leg of their second round tie to go down 4-0 on aggregate to...
Cary Cooper, University of Manchester There’s a saying that people don’t quit their job, they quit their boss. And poor management certainly has a lot to answer for in the UK workplace. A staggering 82% of new managers in the UK are what the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) calls “accidental managers”, according to a YouGov...
Zorena Jantze A farmer has come forward with harrowing details of a stock theft and animal cruelty case, where 18 of his cattle were stolen by four men and hacked on their legs to immobilise them. This left the cattle enduring thirst in the heat of the drought-inflicted Kunene region for days before they were...
Although this is not Namibia’s first population and housing census, there appears to be a general lack of understanding of the importance of this national exercise. Not only that, but some say they have not tasted the fruits of the government’s planning efforts. The nbc News team gauged the views of residents on the western...