Editors Corner

Namibia’s bid to be a united nation continues to suffer setbacks, due to structural and cultural tendencies that the country has seemingly failed to deal with in the past 23 years. Read more about Wambo chicken, Herero Mall and boerewors

President Hifikepunye Pohamba must be commended for publicly releasing the report of an inquiry he had instituted into the state of the public health sector. Read more about What’s the way forward, Mr President?

The 2011 Population and Housing Census Basic Report released last week confirmed that the country has a population of only 2,1 million people. Read more about We’re 2,1 million… now hard work

The soil has barely received the remains of Rina !Nau/gawases, a 17-year-old Augustineum pupil who was raped and killed in the first week of March, and another mother is to soon bury a daughter killed in the same fashion.

As the nation still struggles to come to terms with !Nau/gawases’s brutal death, another disturbing rape and murder case has shaken the community of Goreangab, with 19-year-old Desiree Rooinasie being the latest victim. Read more about Another mother has a funeral

This long weekend, Christians are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion, a miracle that stunned the world some 1980 years ago. Yes, 1980 years ago because Jesus is said to have died aged 33.

Christian teachings emphatically state that Jesus will come back to judge the living and the dead. If Jesus were to come this long weekend, he will find a world different from the one he left thousands of years ago. Read more about If Jesus were to come this weekend

“Yesterday, a South African politician - Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza - vowed to enforce meetings between councillors and communities in order to clamp down on service delivery protests. This follows a string of protests by residents who charge that their councillors are arrogant, underperforming and promoting nepotism.

Mabuza already fired one councillor on March 13, after listening to the community’s version of how things are run in the area under that councillor’s jurisdiction. Read more about The contrast of overpromising and underperforming

An Omusati regional councillor made an uneducated remark last weekend when he told Prime Minister Dr Hage Geingob that the four northern regions - Oshana, Omusati, Ohangwena and Oshikoto - must receive developmental attention from government because they deliver ‘good votes’ for the ruling Swapo.

Outapi Constituency Councillor Tataati Shileka made the remarks at an Independence Day celebration event at Outapi, where Geingob was a keynote speaker on Saturday. Read more about Northern vote and other drugs

On Saturday we witnessed first-hand how Malawi’s national football team, The Flames, burned the out-of-sorts Brave Warriors in Windhoek, snatching a crucial 1-0 victory against the hosts. Read more about Malawi has spoiled our 2014 party

Almost six years after its formation, the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) - the country’s official opposition party - announced what it says are alternative policies to those of the ruling party Swapo.

This immediately reminded us of words uttered once by famous Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who said: “Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.” Read more about RDP’s alternative policies: Why only now?

The Ministry Foreign Affairs this week issued a statement in which it took issue with the manner the local British mission addressed a correspondence to President Hifikepunye Pohamba. Read more about Europe and the big brother attitude