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A real "Halo" was visible in Namibia yesterday. Yeah, just like in the song by Beyoncé ... - i-Namibia English

With Sam Nujoma turning 80 in May this year, Henning Melber considers the Namibian leader's role as a uncompromising patriarch and the significance of the notion of 'family' over 'individual' during the country's liberation struggle. Highlighting the overawing hold of a combat mindset on the leader, Melber considers Nujoma's strikingly dispassionate attitude towards the grim realities of the liberation struggle and the extent to which the liberators 'gave away their humanity'. Of courser Melber makes no mention of the Communist past of Nujoma! - i-Namibia English

Ahead of the upcoming elections in South Africa, The Economist gives a balanced view of Jacob Zuma. This what they think about him in terms of his positives sides: "He is undoubtedly a man of remarkable qualities (see article). In contrast to his dour predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, Mr Zuma can charm the birds out of the trees. Unlike the racially twitchy Mr Mbeki, he feels good in his skin, happy to acknowledge, even celebrate, his modest background. He properly educated himself only during his ten years as a prisoner on Robben Island, alongside Mr Mandela. Mr Zuma is charismatic and canny, as you would expect of a guerrilla who rose to be head of intelligence for the now-ruling ANC. He has been a wily negotiator, who magisterially ended the strife between his fellow Zulus in the early post-apartheid era. He connects easily with black slum-dwellers and white tycoons alike." - i-Namibia English

Dr. Clemens Heni, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Yale University, Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), shows why anti-Semitism is not just a ‘prejudice’ or ‘simple’ racism. It is by far the longest hatred (term of Israeli historian Prof. Robert Wistrich) - anti-Semitism is more than “simple” prejudice, it is a whole worldview, an ideology with genocidal consequences (Shoah) and intentions (Ahmadinejad/Iran, Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism and their Western friends). - i-Namibia English

Greg Hands if of the opinion, that West Germany has done a pretty good job of securing a proper understanding by its people of the magnitude of what happened in 1933-1945. He states: "I think many countries in the world with histories of prejudice, persecution or even genocide towards one or more people or peoples, and which have thankfully now made the political decision to come to terms with their past, would be well advised to study what Germany has done since 1945. It would be wrong to compare the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews with any more recent persecutions, but I do believe that there are universal lessons to be drawn from the German experience in the years since." I agree. - i-Namibia English

More than $300 million foreign aid will flood Namibia in the next five years through the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), a development fund governed by the United States government-owned Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). But the jury is still out on whether the grant is a blessing or a curse. - i-Namibia English

Sol Kerzner of Sun City fame is investing in South Africa again. Good sign! - i-Namibia English

What -- the NDF officers now to be trained by the US Africa Command? Wonder what the commies in the government are going to say! - i-Namibia English

Cool concept -- wildlife biologist led safaris - i-Namibia English