New research shows how Windhoek’s ‘Brown is Beautiful’ approach could use its dry landscape to protect the city from heat, drought and floods.
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Caregivers said their priorities were pension increases, a dedicated allowance, food security and basic infrastructure.
Former residents recall a community nurtured by a spirit of extended family and solidarity.
The erasure of indigenous people living in Windhoek before the German colonisers arrived has angered activists.
The protests carried on for days and continue to simmer in a country whose social fabric has been torn by toxic masculinity and a violent colonial past.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
Urban dwellers who live in informal city settlements have limited access to basic services, and many of them don’t own the land they live on.
The third repatriation of human remains in August this year was another missed opportunity for reconciliation between Germany and Namibia.
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer: photojournalism and digital media, Namibia University of Science and Technology
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Senior Lecturer: Environmental and Resource Economics, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Work at the University of Namibia. Her research interests include ageing and older people, mental health, intergenerational care, and child welfare, University of Namibia
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Professor, University of Pretoria
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Professor in Political Science, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Planning and Construction, Namibia University of Science and Technology
