The Debate Corner … Goodbye, Okahandja Secondary School

Okahandja Secondary School bowed out of the Zula Energy100FM High School Debating competition with a sterling performance against Cosmos High School on the motion ‘this house will introduce stiffer sentences for gender-based violence perpetrators’.

Both schools gave a good account of themselves but Okahandja SS came out stronger with more in-depth content and substantial arguments to emerge victorious against their rival. This school certainly has a bright future in the debating sphere of the country.

Cosmos still however have two more debates lined up to try and get some points.

In other debates, Concordia College also gave an excellent last day performance against Windhoek Gymnasium on the motion ‘this house believes that democracy is the best form of government’. Windhoek Gymnasium defended their position very well and emerged victorious.

Eldorado Secondary School continued their winning streak this past week against Highline Secondary School on the motion ‘this house would expand the permanent membership of the UN Security Council’. Highline are also now out of the competition. A Shipena Secondary School went down to Jan Möhr Secondary School on a difficult debate motion which stated that ‘this house believes that poverty is a state of mind’. Despite an initial excellent performance by A Shipena SS at the beginning of the debate, Jan Möhr SS managed to overtake them at the later stage to emerge the winners.

Last Tuesday, Acacia Secondary School (for) versus Nujoma Secondary School (against) debated the motion ‘this house believes that every Namibian is entitled to a basic income grant’, while Centaurus Secondary School (for) versus Iipumbu Senior Secondary School (against) grappled with the motion ‘this house believes that women are better leaders than men’.

On Thursday, Deutsche Höhere Privatschule (DHPS) (for) versus Negumbo Senior Secondary School (against) debated on the motion ‘this house believes that capitalism is better system than communism’. And J D van der Wath Secondary School (for) versus Mweshipandeka Secondary School (against) debated the motion ‘this house believes that government should not restrict free speech’.

The organisers encourage fellow youth and interested members of the public to tune in to Energy100FM to listen to the leaders of tomorrow debate various issues of relevance to our country.