Author: Wonder Guchu
Council workers arrested for poaching – again
Some of the poaching suspects The anti-poaching unit – the Blue Rhino Combined Task Team – last week arrested 18 suspects among them two Oshakati…
Education is more than just maths, science and geography – Nghipondoka
The deputy education minister Anna Nghipondoka opened the 2020 school year Tuesday in Windhoek. Below we carry her speech verbatim. The Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture is happy to welcome you all back to the new academic year. We…
Engineer challenges mango ban directive
Engineer Charles Mukwaso has said the directive by the agriculture ministry to ban the movement of mangoes from Zambia into Namibia is akin to the agro-economic blockade called the redline. Mukwaso said this when he responded to the letter written…
Finance minister Tito Mboweni wants Lesotho to be SA’s ‘10 province’
Tito Mboweni has a few radical ideas, but this might top the lot. South Africa’s finance minister wants Lesotho to be SA’s ‘tenth province’. He’s not been back on Twitter for very long, but Finance Minister Tito Mboweni knows how…
‘Grade 12 failure rate in towns caused by unregulated entertainment’
Maximalliant Katjimune Popular Democratic Movement Youth League National spokesperson Maximalliant Katjimune said the poor performance of Grade 12 pupils in the urban areas is due to their easy access to entertainment activities which are not properly regulated. He mentioned…
Whereabouts of man who found EVMs’ components not known – affidavit
The whereabouts of one of the men who picked up the two control units of the missing electronic voting machines last year in December 2019 are not known, according to an affidavit that was deposed as part of the…
There’s no timber harvesting in Namibia – ministry
The agriculture ministry said there is no timber being harvested in Namibia as what the media is reporting. In a statement dated 13 January 2020, the ministry said the timber that is being transported across Namibia is from Zambia and…
Operation Desert Kalahari assaults to be investigated – police
The police and army said they are dismayed by the news of some officers deployed in the police-led joint crime prevention operation code-named Operation Kalahari Desert unbecoming behaviour. The acting police chief deputy inspector general Oscar Peter Embubulu told the…
Independent candidates’ supporters must temirnate Swapo membership – Nekongo
Swapo Party Youth League secretary and member of parliament Ephraim Nekongo has said that the concept of the independent candidate is meant to destroy the party. Nekongo says that the party should terminate with immediate effect the membership of anyone…
Woman illegally sells village plot to 15 – Ongwediva Mayor
The mayor for the Ongwediva Town Council, Angelina Angula, has exclusively disclosed to Eagle FM that a woman (name withheld) in the Oshinyadhila Village community sold a piece of land without the Ongwediva Town Council’s approval. Angula said her office…