The Namibia Diverse Women’s Association (NDWA) and the NMT Media Foundation released ‘The Digital Closet’ on 11 December 2024, a landmark study authored by Survey Warehouse’s Christiaan Keulder, exploring the profound effects of online hate speech on Namibia’s LGBT+ community. This comprehensive report is the first of its kind in Namibia, shedding light on the challenges faced…

Most members of the community (94%) have experienced hate speech whilst being online during the past year, and nearly 3 in five (59%) personally experienced intersecting hate speech. More than two in 3 (69%) reported that such experiences increased over the same period, suggesting deteriorating conditions in online spaces for community members, especially in the…

Namibia, quo vadis? By Christiaan Keulder As it turned out, the 2024 presidential and National Assembly election was a watershed. But for all the wrong reasons. Never in its democratic history has Namibia’s election management been this shambolic, and never before have citizens had to endure so much physical and emotional distress just to cast…

Afrobarometer wishes to address recent inaccuracies in media coverage related to its Round 10 survey findings in Namibia. Afrobarometer is a pan-African, non-partisan survey research network that provides reliable data on African experiences and evaluations of democracy, governance, and quality of life. Nine survey rounds in up to 42 countries have been completed since 1999. Round…

Survey Warehouse’s Christiaan Keulder was invited to speak at the 2024 #YouthQuake Conference on International Youth Day 2024. His talk was titled ‘Namibia’s youth engagement in politics’, and you can read it in full below. The #YouthQuakeNam24 conference, held on August 12, 2024, at the Goethe-Institut in Windhoek, brought together over 100 young Namibians, policymakers, and civil…

Almost three-quarters of Namibians went without enough food to eat at least once  during the previous year, a recent Afrobarometer survey indicates. 

During the same period, more than six in 10 citizens experienced shortages of cooking  fuel at least once.

Two-thirds of Namibians say corruption in the country is getting worse, although this share has decreased significantly in recent years, a new Afrobarometer survey indicates. Large majorities believe that at least “some” representatives and officials in government, civil society, and business are involved in corruption. Most citizens say the government is doing a poor job of fighting…

Namibians split on termination of unwanted pregnancies

Almost three-quarters (72%) of Namibians say they voted in the last national election in 2019, while 25% say they did not.

DOWNLOAD BOOK This book takes stock of Namibia’s progress towards a consolidated democracy. In doing so, it looks at the influence of two forces on democracy: the Namibian State and Namibian society. It was compiled by Survey Warehouse founder and political analyst Christie Keulder.

Their changing nature and its implications for democracy and democratic consolidation

54% of Africans support the military taking control when politicians abuse power, but 68% don’t see military rule as an alternative to democracy.

This Rapid Skills Assessment was undertaken by the International Labour Organization (ILO), under the Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA), a Programme of the African Union Commission (AUC), and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD). The SIFA Programme is financed by the European Union and the German Government and is implemented under the technical leadership of…

This survey was conducted at the behest of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Namibia. The report was launched on 28 September 2022 in Windhoek. The Just City project’s aim is to improve an empirical understanding of the relation between the provision of public goods and support for democracy by investigating the social and political shifts that occur…