Category: News
NO DEATH CERTIFICATES FOR UNIDENTIFIED ACCIDENT VICTIMS
By: Kelvin Chiringa The Namibian Police has said that there will not be any death certificates issued for victims of road accidents whose identities have not yet been identified via DNA. “The reality of the situation is that DNA analysis…
SAME-SEX COUPLES’ BATTLE TO BE FOUGHT ANOTHER DAY
By: Kelvin Chiringa The Windhoek High Court has expressed that while it sympathised with same-sex couples who seek to be legally accepted by the Namibian government, it had no power to make such a ruling because of a two-decades-old Supreme…
NIMT MURDER: STATE SAYS 800 EUROS FOR BAIL IS PENNIES
By: Justicia Shipena Deputy prosecutor-general Antonia Verhoef says the N$15 000 proposed by Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology double murder Ernst Lichtenstrasser is too little. Verhoef said this during her closing arguments of Lichtenstrasser’s bail hearing in the Windhoek…
NTB WINS KORA CASE…//NAOBEB SAYS NO PLAN YET TO RECOVER MONEY
By: Justicia Shipena Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) chief executive officer Digu //Naobeb says that they are now planning on how to recover the misappropriated money from Kora Awards. This comes as Judge Herman Oosthuizen ordered Mundial Telecom Sarl, the company…
HEARTBREAK OVER BDF KILLING OF NCHINDOS
By: Kelvin Chiringa/Ludorf Iyambo The latest inquest judgment into the brutal gunning down of the Nchindo brothers along the Chobe river has been met with outrage from a majority of Namibians, with the Namibian Lives Matter (NLM) now bracing to…
CAR DEALERS STRUGGLE TO SELL 1 000 UNITS PER MONTH
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus Local car sales are struggling to reach 1 000 units monthly, as seen in mid-2019 and back in 2018- one of the factors brought forward is the low credit extension to fund vehicle purchases locally. Moreover, global…
NAM PLANS N$450M ENERGY STORAGE
By: Erastus Nghiinomenwa The issue of intermittent power will soon be solved, and the country will be able to store cheap imported electricity for later use through its N$450 million planned energy storage. This is through the planned construction of…
APP CALLS ON GOVT TO ACT ON EDUCATION
By: AnnakletaHaikera The APP says the government should intervene in schools to ensure that every child gets an education without parents experiencing financial strain. Addressing a media conference at Rundu on Wednesday, the APP secretary-general Vincent Kanyentu said the government…
NIMT MURDER-ACCUSED WANTS BAIL TO GO MAKE BABIES
By: Justicia Shipena Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) double-murder accused Ernst Lichtenstrasser says that being incarcerated is getting in the way of trying to make a baby with his wife. Lichtenstrasser said this during his bail hearing on…
PDM AND LPM EXCHANGE HARSH WORDS OVER //KARAS
By: Andrew Kathindi The officially opposition PDM and LPM have lashed out at each other over the//Karas region management. PDM on Wednesday noted that it was deeply concerned about the status of governance in the //Karas region. According to PDM,…