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50 000 initially rejected applicants paid out N$750 each
Finance ministry communications officer Tonateni Shidudu has said that more than 50 000 applicants that had been denied access to the emergency income grant will be paid out. Dozens of applicants whose applications had been rejected because they appeared in…
Stokvel players face N$1m fine or 10 years in jail
Dr Emma Haiyambo, Director Department of Strategic Communications and Financial Sector Development The Bank of Namibia has warned those who are involved in the R200 WhatsApp Stokvel to stop the activities or they will be fined N$1 million or imprisonment for…
Geingob pardons 1 000 prisoners
President Hage Geingob has signed a proclamation to pardon 1 023 prisoners in commemoration of Namibia’s 30th Independence anniversary. Namibia reached 30 years of self-rule on 21 March 2020, but the event was cancelled because of Covid-19. Geingob, however, said…
Column: This path is taking us nowhere
We must go back to the beginning to find ourselves. Each country has to ask why they struggled for independence. Because as it is now, the paths we have followed seem to be leading us nowhere. This could probably be…
Kanime says police talking to public about social distancing
Windhoek City Police Chief Abraham Kanime said they were trying as hard as possible to talk to the community about maintaining social distancing and observing other state of emergency regulations. Chief Kanime told Eagle FM on Tuesday that although it…
Four-stage back to school plan announced
The education ministry has announced a four-phase back to school plan for the 2020 academic year. The executive director of the education ministry Sanet Steenkamp has announced a four-phase plan for the reopening of schools and resumption of face-to-face teaching…
Ombudsman receives 27 complaints against the police
The office of the Ombudsman has received fewer complaints during the lockdown and Advocate John Walters said the decrease is as a result of the movement restrictions. The Ombudsman received 56 complaints of which 27 are related to police brutality…
Column: How to see Africa
Breyten Breytenbach We need to see Africa as it is – in all its brutality, excesses, riches, horror, humiliation, poverty, despair, squalor, posturing and display, beauty, and creativeness. And this is a function of the imagination because we must make…
COLUMN: It’s not about saving N$200m, but about wasting it on cars
The story about President Hage Geingob saving N$200m when he suspended the purchase of cars for ministers and others was misunderstood. It is not about saving N$200m, but it about wasting it on cars under the circumstances. Many people hailed…
Tjihuiko, Kandetu punished over Muinjangue appointment
Caught in-between… Ester Muinjague The Ovaherero Traditional Authority says Bob Kandetu and former Nudo MP Arnold Tjihuiko connived with President Hage Geingob’s administration to capture the former chairperson of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation Ester Muinjangue to accept the deputy minister’s…