Category: News
Swapo Celebrates 62nd Anniversary
By: Uakutura Kamaekua On Tuesday, Swapo President Hage Geingob said that the ruling party’s governance efforts for the past 32 years since independence have ensured the banishment of the spectre of apartheid brutality. He added that more still needs to…
Nelongo Makes U-turn On Shaningwa “Sidelining”
By: Eba Kandovazu Swapo’s Oshana Regional Coordinator, Samuel Nelongo, who last Friday said he would not attend the drive-through event on Sunday, says that a meeting between him and Swapo Secretary-General Sophia Shaningwa resolved their differences. Nelongo previously said that…
Shiimi Says TransNamib Liquidation A Lie
By: Justicia Shipena Acting public enterprises and finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi has denied allegations that TransNamib is to be liquidated. Shiimi said this comment in the National Assembly on Thursday, stating that the state entity is a strategic entity in…
Presidency Hits Back at Inna Hengari Over Salary Cuts
By: Nangura Nguvauva The Presidential press secretary, Alfredo Hengari, says that President Hage Geingob has been generous since the time of exile. He was responding to PDM parliamentarian Inna Hengari, who, in the national assembly, urged Geingob to take a…
Invest In Crocodile Farming To Save Lives
By: Annakleta Haikera The Mashare constituency councillor in the Kavango East Phillip Mavara, has urged the environment ministry to invest in crocodile farming and save lives in the two Kavango regions. This comes after the fourth victim just this year…
Reporting Corruption Cases Wastes Money – NA’s Lydia Kandetu…As N$1.2 Million Goes Missing Parliament
By: Justicia Shipena National Assembly secretary Lydia Kandetu says when cases of money embezzlement are reported to the police or the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), the institution loses a lot of money in resolving the matter. Kandetu said this on Monday…
Namibia’s Italy Arts Exhibition Dream Turns Into A Nightmare
By: Kelvin Chiringa After securing a first of its kind place at a prestigious international art exhibition festival known as the Venice Biennale in Italy, Namibia’s dream of marketing herself to an outside world emerging out of the pandemic is…
Local Producers Should See Opportunity In USA Poultry Ban
By: Nangura Nguvauva The agriculture ministry has suspended the import of live poultry, birds and poultry products from the USA for a period of 21 days after a detected highly pathogenic avian influenza. (HPA) The directive letter seen by…
Teachers, Learners Traumatised after Charles Anderson Learner’s Death
By: Eba Kandovazu Helaria Hedimbi, the class teacher of a grade one pupil, Simon Hamunyela (7), at Charles Anderson Combined School in Ongwediva, who was fatally hit by a car last Monday, says the children at the school are still…
Durban Floods Unlikely To Affect Namibia
By: Hertha Ekandjo Namibians can breathe a sigh of relief as the Namibia Meteorological Services say that the floods currently sweeping through parts of South Africa and took over 300 lives is unlikely to affect Namibia. “There’s no likelihood of…