Students show Demola their solutions for Keetmanshoop’s waste and housing problems
Two groups of students last week pitched their proposed solutions for unique problems experienced...
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Posted by Pierre Maré | Sep 12, 2017 | Environment |
Two groups of students last week pitched their proposed solutions for unique problems experienced...
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‘President Joe once had a dream’. I wonder if you recognise the song? It’s ‘Saviour Machune’ from the earl David Bowie album, ‘The Man who Sold the World’. The machine is built to solve...
Read MorePosted by Pierre Maré | Feb 23, 2017 | Offbeat |
It’s omajova season. The giant mushrooms are back. The termites have been busy, and so have drivers dashing off to harass termite nests and chase off whatever wild animals they find eating the things. Personally, having eaten a...
Read MorePosted by Pierre Maré | Feb 23, 2017 | Thought Leadership |
I deal with annual reports from time to time, one of the more interesting facets of my work. I...
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I have a goth streak in me that is about a mile wide. I do all the usual goth things: tolerance, good manners, reading vampire books and Neil Gaiman comics, thinking about metaphsysics, listening to Joy Division and above all,...
Read MorePosted by Pierre Maré | Feb 9, 2017 | Thought Leadership |
I read an interesting article on the effectiveness of big data. The article began with an anecdote...
Read MorePosted by Pierre Maré | Feb 9, 2017 | Thought Leadership |
I understand western cutlery. I do not fully understand chopsticks. I suppose they were useful for eating when resources to manufacture knives, forks and spoons were scarce. I have spent too much time in these columns with the...
Read MorePosted by Pierre Maré | Feb 3, 2017 | Thought Leadership |
It’s not that life has become too comfortable. It’s just that there is so much of it hanging about that I might as well take some enjoyment from it. It works on the same principle as the overworked person who gets ill. Sometimes...
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