Category: National
NamPower probes source of two-hour blackout
SOME parts of Namibia were plunged into darkness on Tuesday night when power was off for about two hours. The affected areas were those at the coast, northern regions, and central Namibia. The power utility, NamPower, says it was…
EVMs use ruling set for 25 Nov.
The Electoral Tribunal has postponed independent presidential candidate Dr Panduleni Itula’s case in which he wants the Electoral Commission of Namibia to make changes to the use of the electronic voting machines to 25 November 2019. Dr Itula gave the…
State House condemns New Era article
President Hage Geingob has dismissed a news report in the state-owned New Era publication that said he had denounced demands for the dismissals of former ministers Sacky Shanghala and Bernhard Esau. The ministers, who are being investigated by the ACC…
State House denies motorcade was blocked
State House has dismissed reports that President Hage Geingob’s motorcade was blocked at Ondangwa on Saturday. Some media reports said that Geingob was stuck in the traffic after Dr Itula In a press statement Monday, the presidential press secretary…
15 arrested over poaching within a week
The environment ministry says 15 people were arrested between 11 and 17 November, while 10 new cases were reported during the same period. In a statement Monday, environment ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda said that two of the suspects were arrested…
NQA boss in court for attempted murder
The Namibia Qualifications Authority chief executive officer Frans Gertze who shot his wife, Annita, six times on Saturday has appeared in the Windhoek Magistrate Court Monday. Gertze is facing attempted murder, assault with the intention of causing gross bodily harm…
Another billion-dollar rail tender for a Chinese company
The Chinese-owned company that won the N$730 million-dollar Swapo headquarters construction tender is in line to win another N$1,2 billion-tender for upgrading the Arandis to Kranzberg railway line. Qingjian Group Co Ltd bid the rail upgrade tender as a joint…
SPYL calls for the barment of convicted party members
The SWAPO Party Youth League (SPYL) wants former ministers Sacky Shanghala and Bernhard Esau to resign following damning allegations that they received massive bribes from an Iceland fishing company in exchange for quotas and licences. Shanghala and Esau resigned on…
We are relentlessly pursuing the fishing scandal probe – Noa
The ACC said on Wednesday that the information they gathered when whistleblowers reported the fishing bribery scandal involving two ministers and an Iceland fishing company were not enough to compile in a docket they could have sent to the prosecutor…
Jooste wants Hatuikulipi, Nghipunya fired from Fishcor
The public enterprises minister Leon Jooste has written to the acting fisheries minister Albert Kawana to remove James Hatuikulipi from the board of Fishcor for his involvement in a bribery scandal involving an Iceland company. Jooste also said that the…