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Mondays, I find, is always a good day to start contemplating issues. An issue which has come to fore in my mind is one that will, eventually, affect each and every Namibian for many years to come: The absolute dearth of good Namibian journalists coming up from where they were trained.

Of course, there are exceptions like in any field of endevaour.

Yes, I know, there are a number of really good Namibian reporters, media specialists, journalists or whatever they would ...

My Mama always told me that the Good Lord gave me a head to think with and not only to keep my ears apart so that I could wear glasses.

Looking at our good friend and neighbour, Zimbabwe, I note that there are a myriad of voices claiming this and claiming that about their liquidity or illiquidity.

So, I listened to my Mama and took what the Good Lord gave me, applied it as best as I could and came up with the following:

Barely a month ago, Dr. Gono, the ...

Let them eat cake


A brand-new contribution in your favourite online community in this brandnew year. Welcome it. There are brickbats and kudos (where such are deserved). And, hopefully, you will chuckle about some of the stuff penned down.

Let’s start with this with the skunk of the Western World: His Excellency, The Terminator of Zimbabwe, Bumbling Bob the First (and hopefully the last).
With the news last year that the baked bread was getting as ...

When my ISP found me they must have held a party, because they had discovered their cash cow.

Yes, I spend a lot of time on the Internet; both professionally and privately. The queen of my heart says I am married to that box in my study.

But be that as it may. I have a huge, - nay voracious - appetite for news. I read anything from Vladivostok to Bremen; from Zanzibar to Abuja; from Putsonderwater to Abenab.

You name, I read it. I concentrate on print ...

People who know me also know that my computer and I might as well have been Siamese twins.

In essence this means that although I care for my family (wife and kids), but you will not have to go far to look for me when I happen to have disappeared. You will find me behind the keyboard in front of my screen.

It also means that I have a fair knowledge of computer and that is where today's gripe comes in.

Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, complains about ...