(On the occasion of the Omaruru RDPYL Conference 15/04/2012)   The Namibian Youth are in dire straits – affected by   lack of appropriate education & training lack of libraries, study & recreation centres lack of playgrounds & sportgrounds lack of art & craft tuition or promotion lack of hope….   often resulting in anti-social [...]

 Honourable Speaker,  I am torn between Admiration and Frustration…. if not Desperation! Admiration  for the way the Hon Minister of Finance and her team, in cooperation with the NPC, have managed to skilfully steer our public finances through the World Financial Crisis, with – comparatively – remarkable positive results. For that  I wish to join [...]

Honourable Speaker, Sir, Honourable Members, At the outset, allow me the privilege to preface this contribution with some remarks. Convention requires, and indeed it is proper to congratulate the Honourable Minister of Finance on a well-articulated budget. After so many years in the driving seat of the country’s finances, the Honourable Minister displays a commendable [...]

  The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) is shocked and indeed very much disappointed and embarrassed by the revelations that Namibia’s national institution for higher learning, the University of Namibia (UNAM), is allegedly converted into an academic brothel by some of its lecturers and that some of our daughters have been turned into prostitutes [...]

1.    In your own words, who is Sibuku Malumbano (e.g. your village, position in the RDP, what you do etc).   My name is Sibuku Malumbano I hail from the Caprivi region, Sibbinda village. I am currently the secretary for the RDP Youth League and a member of the RDP Central Committee. My duties as RDP [...]

Honorable Speaker,   I rise to speak on the historic uprising which has been rocking the countries of North Africa and the Middle East in recent months. These uprisings have been events of unprecedented magnitude that should have aroused alarming concern in this continent. Very obviously, a calamity of revolutionary proportions, such as, the ones [...]

  A message of condolence,   First of all, the RDPYL wishes to convey message of condolence to the families, friends and community members for the untimely deaths of three citizens of this country who succumbed at Keetmanshoop, in the Tseiblaagte residential area, due to the cold front that swept through the southern parts of [...]

Dear Members of the Media, The rank and file of the RDP wishes to strongly condemn the death threat leveled against Mr. Evilastus Kaaronda, as covered in the media, by allegedly a senior Swapo Party member and a Cabinet Minister, Mr. Alfeus !Naruseb.   Mr. Kaaronda, like any other Namibian citizen, has a constitutional right [...]

Over the years after independence, the nation has been inundated with complaints regarding poor service delivery at state hospitals, clinics and medical centers.  Recently, the RDP dispatched its leaders to pay visits to several medical institutions both here in Windhoek and elsewhere to verify the problems that are generally raised by the people. It is [...]