The Namibian
| The Namibian | |
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| description | English-language daily newspaper |
| publishing company | The Namibian Publishing |
| First edition | August 30, 1985 |
| Frequency of publication | working days |
| Sold edition | 32,500 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Tangeni Amupadhi |
| Web link | www.namibian.com.na |
The Namibian is a daily newspaper in Namibia . The editorial office is based in the capital Windhoek . With a circulation of 32,500 copies, the newspaper is Namibia's largest daily newspaper. The basic direction of the newspaper is considered to be left and is particularly critical of the current government.
The slogan is “Still telling it like it is!” (German: “Still says what's going on!”).
After more than 25 years, editor-in-chief Gwen Lister handed over the post to Tangeni Amupadhi in March 2011 .
Since February 2015, the Namibian has been printed in our own WordPress Namibia print shop .
history
Until Namibia's independence in 1990
The Namibian was founded in 1985 by Gwen Lister and Hannes Smith after the Windhoek Observer , where both had previously worked, was banned by the Pretoria Media Commission in 1984 . It initially appeared as a weekly newspaper that was financed by donations. The main goals of the newspaper were the emancipation of what was then South West Africa / Namibia from South Africa , the exposure of injustice by the apartheid government , and the reporting of independence efforts in other African countries.
The Namibian was at that time as the left, the African independence movements and the SWAPO newspaper close, the latter by the chief editor Lister is contested today. The name was both a provocation and a program, after all, a future independent state of Namibia (which was only to emerge 5 years later) was denied the unrestricted right to exist for a long time by the administrator , South Africa, which had become unacceptable under international law . White businessmen boycotted the paper.
In 1988 a fire and tear gas attack was carried out on the Namibian offices . The "Wit Wolwe" ( Afrikaans for: White Wolves), a right-wing extremist and racist terrorist organization, confessed to the attack.
Since 1990
In 1990 Namibia became independent. Since then, Lister has shaped the new role of the Namibian as an observer and critic of the government, especially the SWAPO party, which is now ruling with an absolute majority. After several verbal threats to her newspaper, this led to a government boycott of advertising in 2001, which a year later was expanded to include a ban on buying editions of the Namibian with public money. Both bans are still in force today, despite its role as the Namibian daily newspaper with the highest circulation.
In 2001, the 15th anniversary of the newspaper praised UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan the newspaper as an important factor for the freedom of the press and the political stabilization of the country Namibia.
Since 2008, The Namibian has once again been exposed to harsh government criticism, mainly relating to a daily SMS comment page . In Namibia, the postal system is slow and patchy, but the cell phone sector is well developed. This means that considerably more readers can send text messages electronically than can write letters. The SMS reader side therefore contains, also because of the intrinsic anonymity of such messages, broader and clearer criticism than the letters to the editor, and most of the criticism is directed at the government and the SWAPO, which governs with an absolute majority, which is currently (2009) a ban these SMS sites discussed.
See also
Web links
- Anniversary edition for the 25th anniversary , September 1, 2010 (English; PDF; 31.3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Country information Namibia. Federal Foreign Office, accessed March 30, 2011 .
- ↑ Media Institute of South Africa: Chapter Namibia ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Amupadhi succeeds Gwen Lister, Allgemeine Zeitung, March 9, 2011
- ↑ 02/03/2015 News in the morning. Hitradio Namibia, February 3, 2015, accessed on July 1, 2017 (PDF, 9.8 MB)
- ^ The Media Report: January 23, 2003 Gwen Lister: Crusading editor
- ^ Govt keeps ad ban on The Namibian, The Namibian, February 7, 2006
- ^ Message from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2001) ( Memento of March 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Legislative body calls for investigation into newspaper's readers' page
