Category: News
15-YEAR-OLD SUFFOCATE TODDLER TO DEATH
By: Dwight Links A Divundu family says they cannot do anything to the girl (15) who is said to have suffocated their one-year-old child to death. The incident where Ndara Quinton Makanga was suffocated to death happened on Wednesday this…
REGIONAL GOVERNORS…GEINGOB DEFENDS RIGHT TO APPOINT GOVERNORS
By: Andrew Kathindi President Hage Geingob has defended a constitutional prerogative to appoint regional governors, which has long been critiqued. Opposition parties and political commentators have previously said that the system to appoint governors should come under review in order…
FISHROT IN THE LIMELIGHT AGAIN…TAMSON’S WIFE FIGHTS FOR PROPERTY
By: Kelvin Chiringa Tamson Hatuikulipi’s wife, Ndapandula, says she is concerned that her assets are subject to a restraint order although there is no causal link between them and the allegations her husband is facing. Ndapandula is the daughter of…
WALVIS BAY RELEASES ABRIDGED AUDIT REPORT
By: Andrew Kathindi The Walvis Bay Municipality has recommended that an external human resource specialist should be appointed to conduct further investigations following the submission of a PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report. The audit report, which came with a number of recommendations…
LPM WANTS OTJIWARONGO CHAIRPERSON OUT
The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) has nudged urban and rural development minister, Erastus Utoni, to investigate and get rid of Otjiwarongo management committee chairperson, Gothard Hoko (Swapo) whom they say was illegally appointed to the position. “Hoko was only nominated…
WALVIS BAY MAYOR CLAIMS IGNORANCE OVER DEVICES
By: Andrew Kathindi Walvis Bay mayor Trevino Forbes has claimed that councillors were not aware that a request had been made for them to get top of the range iPad Air costing about N$17 000 each. This comes after the…
TOURISM TENDER STORM…COMPANY SAYS NGHITILA ABUSED HIS POWERS
By: Kelvin Chiringa A Namibian owned tech-company, Virtual Technologies, has accused the tourism ministry of victimization after its N$3 million tender for the provision of access control system and surveillance cameras was cancelled and readvertised. The ministry wanted to install…
WINDHOEK MUNICIPALITY…KAHUNGU, AMUPANDA TRADE BLOWS ON LAND BUDGET
By: Kelvin Chiringa The former City of Windhoek mayor, Francina Kahungu, and the current mayor, Job Amupanda, have traded barbs on whose team has delivered better service to the residents. Amupanda accused the Swapo-led council on his social media of…
GUN AMNESTY…KAWANA APPEALS FOR THE RETURN OF ILLEGAL GUNS
Staff Witer Home affairs minister Dr Albert Kawana has urged all those who have unlicenced guns to surrender them to the police with effect from Wednesday. Kawana was speaking during the African Gun Amnesty Month event in Windhoek. “Any person…
SWAPO CONVOY VEHICLE HITS GIRL
Staff Writer One of the vehicles in the Swapo convoy is said to have hit and injured a five-year-old girl in Choto compound at Katima Mulilo on Thursday. The girl’s grandfather Michael Simasiku told The Villager on Tuesday that the…