Namibia held regional council and local authority elections on 26 November 2025.
Namibia: voting with our feet?
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Namibia
Unemployment is exceptionally high — even if elites are trying to pretend otherwise
South Africa doesn’t have a “statistical-error” unemployment crisis; it has a jobs crisis.
An Electoral Coup in Namibia?
The manipulation of the ballot papers made the rigging of the Namibian elections subtle and largely invisible.
Reflections on the Namibian Genocide
The moral victory of the South African government at the International Court of Justice against Palestinian genocide can only be applauded. The symbolic significance of the former apartheid country taking such action is undoubtedly immense. Similarly, Namibia also...
A Namibian tribute to Neville Alexander: Revisiting the National Question | by Shaun Whittaker
It is a remarkable historical coincidence that Neville Alexander was laid to rest on the very same day that some Marikana workers – most of whom were also from the Eastern Cape - were buried. This tragic incident of the miners represents a turning point in the...
African population, food and the future | by Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
It should be obvious in this discussion that our goal is definitely not to contribute to the ‘politically correct’ rhetoric bandied about incessantly which calls for some ‘decrease’ in African population because we do not believe that Africa, in the first instance, is...
Plunder of Palestinian natural resources is “corporate war crime,” manual explains | by Adri Nieuwhof
WhoProfits, a research project of the Coalition of Women for Peace, has documented corporate plunder of natural resources in the occupied West Bank. For example, Israeli cosmetics firm Ahava’s extraction of mud from the occupied Palestinian Dead Sea and...
No winners in the race to the bottom | by Roman Grynberg
Zero corporate tax rates and expensive incentives are not worth the investments they attract, writes Roman Grynberg. The freeing up of international trade and the increased mobility of investment have resulted in what tax analysts frequently call a “race to the...
Undermining Africa – Africa’s role in the global uranium economy | by David Fig
Africa is a major supplier of uranium to the world nuclear industry. And yet, apart from South Africa, the continent has little or no stake in going nuclear itself. Should Africa be saying no to the global development of this technology, or should it continue to...