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Your Excellency President Lucas Hifikepunye Pohamba:

SUBJ: PETITION AGAINST ARMS TRANSFERS TO ZIMBABWE

We, Namibian civil society actors, congratulate and credit you on your role in not allowing and or preventing the Chinese ship, the “An Yue Jiang”, from delivering its lethal cargo intended for Zimbabwe via Namibian territory. This is a significant achievement. Had this transfer gone ahead, it risked exacerbating an already volatile situation in th SADC country. ...

Shebeeners and Shebeensters,

Wednesday, little Saturday! Watwou! Worked more today than Monday and Tuesday combined. That's why this is late.

Africa can celebrate today! Just after the "festivities" of Africa Day, we get the report that Barack Obama has knocked that superbitch for a six! Flat on her bum.

And what happens? That supercilious and obnoxious person still does not want to acknowledge has she has been beaten fair and square by Obama. ...

Good day all.

While I was listening to one of the radio stations this morning, I started to feel bothered and did not not why. Something rang wrong and I could not put my finger on it. Unusual, I thought.

Then - eventually- it struck me. This station runs a competition and they request that entrants to this competition send them a fax to a certain number with all the details.

Easy enough. I make a note of the fax number and once at work .............. that ...

Dear Shebeeners and dear readers,


I am not tate Oneword who goes off on a topic or Comrade_007 who waxes lyrically about democracy and the faults of the ruling party.

What I want to do here is to look at some of the global , continental, regional and home issues that make headlines during the day or over a weekend.

Take now the issue of Thabo Mbeki and the alleged letter from Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC where Mbeki is for all accounts and purposes accused ...

NSHR joins the general public and certain sections of the local media in registering its utter disgust at the corrupt conduct and scandalous failure by several top politicians and lawmakers to discharge their duties.

In accordance with the Namibian Constitution and law, high-ranking politicians and public officials are required to act reasonably and fairly and comply with the requirements imposed upon them by common law and relevant legislation. Ministers and lawmakers are not above ...