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Namibia Special Olympic female team off the USA
By: Dolly Menas Namibia sent off its special Olympic female football team to the United States to compete in the Unify Football Sport Championship. The team will depart on 29 July for the Unified Cup 2022, which brings together over…
No Way Back For LPM’s Keetmashoop Deputy Mayor
By: Justicia Shipena It is the end of the road for recalled Landless People’s Movement (LPM) Keetmanshoop local authority councillor and former deputy mayor Charlcyta Cooper after trying to convince the party to listen to her version of the events….
Nampol Records 98,640 Criminal Cases
By: Annakleta Haikera The Namibian police have recorded 98,640 criminal cases during the 2021/2022 financial year, which include robbery, rape and violence against women and children and forms of domestic violence, murder, theft of motor vehicles and livestock, dealing in…
NEFF Threatens Geingob With UN Involvement Over Phala Phala
By: Hertha Ekandjo Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) has now threatened to involve African Union(AU), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Union and international organisations should President Hage Geingob not “come clean” about his alleged involvement in the Phala Phala…
Suicide Rates Rise By Over 100 as 679 Take Their Lives
By: Hilma Tuukondjele Namibia’s suicide rates have increased by 100 since last year, indicating that the country continues to grapple with the mental health crisis that has seen 679 people take their lives between January 2021 and May 2022. In…
Cheetah Cement/MUN in War of Words Over Strike Rules…as company braces to retrench locals
Staff Writer Cheetah Cement factory management has now written, through its lawyers, to the Mine Workers Union (MUN), accusing it of breaking striking rules by interfering with non-striking workers and thus bringing production to an effective halt. But the union’s…
City Council Not A Failure, Mayor Says
Staff Writer Windhoek Mayor Sade Gawanas was adamant that the City’s coalition council has not failed but chose to lay the blame at the feet of certain individuals she would not name. Gawanas said this in a press conference on…
Government Issues ‘No Pay’ Warning For Civil Servants Thinking of Striking
By: Justicia Shipena and Hertha Ekandjo Labour minister Utoni Nujoma has warned that government is under no obligation to pay any public servant planning to strike. More than 100,000 government employees are gearing up to down tools after the government…
Make ICT In Lower Grades Compulsory – Swapo’s Hofni Iipinge
By: Hilma Tuukondjele Swapo party youth league (SPYL)’s secretary for education, Hofni Iipinge, has proposed making Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) studies a compulsory subject in lower grades curriculum. Iipinge told The Villager that according to his research, there is…
Tourists Trickle Back to Namibia
By: Hilma Tuukondjele Environment and tourism minister Pohamba Shifeta says there was a 40.9 per cent increase in foreign arrivals, from 192,026 arrivals in 2020 to 270,644 arrivals in 2021. He further said tourist arrivals had a substantial growth of…