By: Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka It is disappointing that the strategy politicians seem to have chosen to reach out to voters nowadays is by way of displaying big flags, parades, musical dances, and useless songs. When will we actually communicate the plans and substance of the manifestos? Time is running out. When will you, as […]
By: Kandjengo Mkwaanyoka Last month, I visited my home, and every evening my grandmother asked us to pray for rain and behave well so that the ancestors would bless us with a better season. This has been a normal practice since my childhood. Granny, a firm believer in Kalunga kaNangobe, always looks to the […]
By: Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka In our economic analysis, we do injustice to one of the greatest seasons in Namibia that all farmers and many Namibians get to feast on affordable free nutritional food. That season is called Okufu in my vernacular, a season of harvest, when trees are producing fruit, and every fruit tree […]
By: Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka Every evening, I wrestle with the urge to grab a broom and swat away the spider dangling from my room’s ceiling. It’s a struggle born of fear; fear of spiders and other bugs that have haunted me since childhood. Growing up, it was ingrained in me to eradicate any insect […]
By: Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka So, guess what? Last weekend, I made a rare move – I went to church on both Saturday and Sunday. Surprisingly, it was a beautiful experience, but don’t get your hopes up for Bible lessons; I’m diving into the economic lessons I picked up. I visited two types of churches […]
By: Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka and Joseph Jeremia Many Namibians, as well as people around the world, must be wondering what inflation is and what causes the monthly rapid rise in prices of goods and services. Every time you walk into a shop, the price of a particular good has gone up – but why? […]
By: Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka Do Namibians really gain any tangible benefits from relinquishing ownership of our natural resources and other properties to so-called foreign investors? Or are we trading our natural resources for jobs and meagre taxes? These questions have been bothering me, especially in the aftermath of the selling of the Erindi Game […]
By: Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka In my contribution to the economic discourse, there’s one aspect that leaves me conflicted. And that is the suggestion to increase our population/market size by encouraging people to have more children. The question about the size of the population and its relationship to a country’s economic growth rate and development has long […]
By: Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka Observing the descent of the Hercules Oil Rig into our waters to assess offshore wells triggers a cascade of thoughts within me. In this context, I would like to discuss how criminals and fraudsters have elevated their tactics to sustain their illicit economic activities more affectively at the expense of the entire […]
By: Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka The primary responsibility of any government is to determine how to allocate its resources, particularly within the framework of the National Budget. In Namibia, one of the methods we have chosen for this allocation is the Public Procurement Act of 2015, which replaced the former Tender Board Act (16 of 1996). The […]