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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…
PARALYMPICS SILVER MEDALIST…SHIKONGO ANANIAS
Date of Birth: 21 Jul 1986 Age: 35 Gender: Male Sport Class: T11 Place of birth: OKANKOLO Impairment Details He lost his left eye in an accident at age three when his brother tried to shoot birds using a bow…
NORMAN TJOMBE FILES FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT AGAINST PDM, ECN
By: Andrew Kathindi Lawyer Norman Tjombe has filed for contempt of court against the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) and the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) for failing to gazette his clients as parliament members. An electoral court last year ruled…
OSTORA YILI MUDHIGU (IN TROUBLE) …WOMEN SAY NIPDB STOLE IDEA
By: Kelvin Chiringa The Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board (NIPDB) has been accused of Intellectual Property (IP) theft by two local entrepreneurs who have since written a letter to them. The investment board recently introduced the idea of a…