Author: Kelvin Chiringa
SHANINGWA SLAMMED OVER “OFFSIDE, IGNORANT, INSENSITIVE UTTERANCES”
By: Kelvin Chiringa Swapo party Secretary-General, Sophia Shaningwa, has been criticised for making offside, ignorant and insensitive comments when she told party followers Wednesday morning that the party can build hospitals if the community wants one. During the Swapo meeting,…
THE RAGING BATTLE BEHIND NAMIBIA’S TOURISM SECTOR
By: Kelvin Chiringa The question of how inclusive the local tourism sector has often not been adequately addressed continues to linger and has now been revived by some. These revivalists have expressed that they feel certain players are exclusionary in…
SHIPWIKINENI IS THREATENING US – SWAPO
By: Kelvin Chiringa The Swapo Party has accused unionist and member Reinhold Shipwikineni of using threats in his bid to push for constitutional amendments. Shipwikineni has advised the party that if it does not affect several constitutional changes ahead of…
MORE TROUBLE FOR SWAPO’S KATIMA URBAN CONSTITUENCY COUNCILOR
… AS HE FAILS TO PAY N$50 000 LOANS USED TO SERVICE RFA FUNDS By: Kelvin Chiringa Soon after being criminally charged by the Roads Fund Administration (RFA) for allegedly stealing N$85 000 to fund his election campaign last year,…
NO MORE DOUBTS ON NAM OIL POTENTIAL – NAMCOR
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus and Kelvin Chiringa A deep-water exploration well by Shell, Namcor and Qatar Energy has made a discovery of light oil in both primary and secondary targets, the partners confirmed last week Friday. However, projection shows it will…
KATUTURA FAMILY EVICTION ENDS IN STABBING
By: Kelvin Chiringa One man was stabbed during an altercation at erf 198 Katutura East along the Sageus Kavandje street this week when he came to the defence of his brother, who was being violently evicted from a house their…
2 MORE PRE-TRIAL DETENTION YEARS FOR NIMT MURDER-ACCUSED
By: Kelvin Chiringa Double NIMT murder accused Ernest Lichtenstrasser is now concerned that he may spend two more years languishing in pre-trial detention as his third attempt at bail ended up dead in the water yesterday. The 60-year-old is accused…
SURPRISE LPM MOVE – MEETING GEINGOB
By: Justicia Ashipena and Kelvin Chiringa When LPM leaders Bernadus Swartbooi and Henny Seibeb took on President Hage Geingob in the National Assembly, resulting in their suspension, no one ever thought the parties could meet. But they did! And behind…
NBC, NAPWU HUG AND KISS AS THEY REBOUND
By: Kelvin Chiringa The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and the Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu) seem to be mending relations after a fight over the union’s continued representation of workers. The national broadcaster’s director-general, Stanley Similo, has written to Napwu’s…
BUCKLE UP, TIGHTEN UP OR BUY A BICYCLE
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus/ Kelvin Chiringa After a temporary respite in January, Tom Alweendo and his team are back this time to tell all motorists, consumers, and fuel-driven industries to prepare extra cents per litre come 2 February 2021. This is…