Author: Kelvin Chiringa
200 YOUTHS EXPECTED TO MEET GEINGOB AT STATEHOUSE
By: Kelvin Chiringa An expected crowd of 200 young people from all walks of life and across the political divide are expected to make a date with President Hage Geingob and interrogate key issues affecting them in various respects at…
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE TO GRILL DEFENSE MINISTRY
By: Kelvin Chiringa This Tuesday, the defence ministry will be subjected to critical scrutiny and questioning by the parliamentary standing committee on public accounts at the back of a questionable audit. Dudu Murorua confirmed this last week after hosting a…
JOOSTE WON’T LEAD SOES DEPARTMENT UNDER SHIIMI…NUNW IN CELEBRATORY MODE
By: Kelvin Chiringa Leone Jooste said he has no intention to head the public enterprises’ department when the current state-owned enterprises’ ministry is phased out. The department will be placed under the watch of finance minister Ipumbu Shiimi. Effectively,…
FORMER DEPUTY PM’S WIFE THREATENS TO SUE LPM COUNCILLOR
By: Kelvin Chiringa The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) regional councillor in Aranos, Salomon Boois has been accused by his business partners of fraudulently reducing their shareholding in Queen Sophia Fishing CC. Boois stands accused of taking 15% shares of former…
TOUR GUIDE COMPANY CAUTIONS AGAINST BLAME GAME
By: Kelvin Chiringa Delphine Ilunga, owner of Furaha Tours and Safaris, under whose watch a French tourist ended up dead in the Deadvlei, has cautioned against blame game as authorities hunt after what caused the death. Nicolas Remondiere (54) was…
GUSTAVO STICKS HIS HEAD OUT… CALLS OUT SCOT-FREE FISHROT ACCUSED PERSONS
By: Kelvin Chiringa Fishrot accused Ricardo Gustavo has lamented that some of his co-accused have been allowed to tell their side of the story in the whole corruption scandal while he has not been given the same opportunity. Gustavo also…
FARMERS WANT URANIUM EPLS IN STAMPRIET CANCELLED
By: Kelvin Chiringa The Chairperson of the Stampriet Aquifer Uranium Mining Committee (SAUMC), Divan Opperman, wants to retract all EPLs issued for uranium prospecting across the Stampriet Artesian Basin. In the same breath, the organisation has thanked the agriculture ministry…
IPC’S PANDULENI ITULA WANTS TO KNOW…WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR SWAPO DESIGNER JACKET?
By: Kelvin Chiringa The Fishrot corruption scandal bail hearing may have been postponed to next year, but the political ramifications created by the latest revelations have come back to sting the Swapo Party. At the centre of the issue is…
SUSPENDED SHIPWIKINENI RANTS…THEY WANT “YES MEN/WOMEN” AT SWAPO CONGRESS
By: Kelvin Chiringa Okahenge Swapo branch co-ordinator Reinhold Shipwikineni has said the leadership had suspended him because he is a political threat to some elements’ ambitions in the coming watershed congress. Shipwikineni has challenged his suspension, asking proof of whether…
CHAOS IN KALKRAND OVER LAND…ITULA CAUTIONS IPC VILLAGE CHAIRPERSON
By: Kelvin Chiringa Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Dr Panduleni Itula directed the party’s Kalkrand chairperson, Simeon Martin, to prevent acting chief executive officer Johannes Kaulihowa from entering his work premises. Itula has also directed Martin to stop interfering…