The Importance of Business Planning for the Closing Seasons

The Importance of Business Planning for the Closing Seasons

By Josef Kefas Sheehama The holiday season is a particular instance when you might have a lot of different demands on your time, both professionally and personally. Before you know it, you’re halfway through December and the Christmas shut-down period is just around the corner. In order to really switch off from your business it pays to do a little forward planning first. Just because you’re taking a well-earned break […]

November 29, 2023 11

Opinion Pieces

Is time travel even possible? An astrophysicist explains the science behind the science fiction

a If traveling into the past is possible, one way to do it might be sending people through tunnels in space. by raggio5 via Pixabay Adi Foord, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Will it ever be possible for time travel to occur? – Alana C., […]

November 29, 2023 5

Africa

New study pushes for protection of one of Africa’s ‘least understood treasures’

by Ryan Truscott on Mongabay Aerial view of the NGOWP team’s mekoro along the Cuando River. Image by Kostadin Luchansky/National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project. A new study reveals the extent of a tropical water tower in Angola, which performs the same role as snow-capped mountains in the Northern Hemisphere. The Angolan Highlands Water Tower contains peatlands and freshwater lakes that supply major rivers in the region, and the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta […]

November 15, 2023 11

Africa

bird’s TEN X SERIES: Top 10 Tallest buildings in Africa

Africa’s city ecosystem is attracting billions of dollars in new projects, making them home to some of the world’s glitziest and tallest buildings. 1. The Iconic Tower, Egypt With its towering height of 385m (1266ft), the Iconic Tower is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture. Its sleek, modern design incorporates cutting-edge engineering, symbolising Egypt’s innovative approach to high-rise construction and design aesthetics. 2. Great Mosque of Algiers Tower, Algeria Standing tall […]

November 15, 2023 10

Namibia

Oshikoto police launch festive season operation

Oshikoto Regional Police Commander, Commissioner Teopoline Kalompo-Nashikaku, has emphasised the police’s commitment to combating crime during the festive season. Speaking during the Oshikoto regional police briefing session on the festive season operation at the police headquarters in Omuthiya on Tuesday, Nashikaku said the operation is scheduled to run from 17 November 2023 until 17 January 2024, with the primary goal of preventing crimes and minimising fatalities. “We pledge zero fatalities, […]

November 15, 2023 7

Africa

“Do not overlook Africa’s multi-trillion food and agribusiness sector” African Development Bank chief tells investors at World Food Prize Dialogue

Africa’s food and agribusiness will be worth an estimated US$11 trillion by 2030, African Development Bank President Dr Akinwumi Adesina told participants of the World Food Prize Foundation’s Norman E. Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday. The annual event in America’s agricultural heartland, revolved around this year’s theme of “harnessing change,” with delegates and panellists exploring innovative ideas to shore up innovation, adaptation, and diversification, and mechanisms for improving resilience, recovery from […]

October 30, 2023 5

Namibia

Nangolo’s legal aid certificate revoked

In a further update to the story about lawyer Eva Nangolo’s derogatory Tweet about the Damara people, Minister of Justice Yvonne Dausab has revoked her legal aid certificate. Dausab has written to Nangolo, saying that the actions taken in her private capacity will impact her capabilities to execute her duties as a legal aid counsel. Executive Director, Gladice Pickering explains.

April 5, 2023 29

Africa

Kenya to launch first home built satellite

Kenya will launch its first operational satellite, the Taifa-1, or Nation-1 in Swahili, which is scheduled to be launched on 10 April aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The AFP news agency reports that the observation satellite is "fully designed and developed" by Kenyan engineers and will be used to provide data on agriculture and food security, among other areas. Testing and […]

April 4, 2023 10

Namibia

UNAM Southern Campus lecture block inaugurated

Speaking at the inauguration of the lecture hall complex at the University of Namibia Southern Campus in Keetmanshoop, Deputy President, Nangolo Mbumba, pointed out that the country’s youth will only be able to fully participate and benefit economically if they are skilled and have requisite know-how. It is for this reason, he said, that the University of Namibia has taken a deliberate decision to relocate Geoscience Programmes from the UNAM […]

April 4, 2023 11