September 13, 2015, 5:56 pm
Enduring punches, going home with a swollen face and bleeding is what makes boxing fascinating for Soweto Boxing and Fitness Academy founder Tobias Nashilongo.
The well placed boxing trainer, who even has champions under his name, did not start as a trainer.
He told Sport Wrap that boxing has been a game close to his heart and upon his return home from Cuba, where he used to train as an amateur boxer he decided to advance his career and pass on his skills.
Read more about Boxing is my passion
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September 13, 2015, 11:31 pm
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September 14, 2015, 5:00 pm
The investment and business environment in Namibia, if made more attractive, will expand existing businesses, create new ones and create employment opportunities, says Tarah Shaanika, Chief Executive Officer of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI).
Addressing delegates at the Swakopmund International Trade Expo (SWAITEX) fundraising dinner in Swakopmund on Saturday, Shaanika said expansion was crucial to Namibia’s improved fortunes.
Read more about How to create jobs
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September 14, 2015, 5:00 pm
In the midst of the trial of four Chinese nationals accused of trying to smuggle 14 rhino horns and a leopard skin out of the country last year, the name of a ‘high roller’ at the Windhoek Country Club Casino and Resort has been added to the State evidence.
Li Zhibing, Li Xiaoliang, Pu Xuexin and Wang Hui appeared in the Windhoek Regional Court in Katutura yesterday for the continuation of their trial.
State witness Raymond Kodisang, Deputy General Manager of the Windhoek Country Club, testified about a booking made at the resort under the name of a certain P. Geng.
Read more about ‘High roller’ linked to rhino horn case
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September 14, 2015, 5:00 pm
The children of the liberation struggle camping outside the gates of the Police Training Centre at Ondangwa insist they will not move until they are recruited by Correctional Services.
A group of 29 exile children – most of them women – have been camping across from the Ruben Danger Ashipala Police Centre since August 30 – on the day that recruits were expected to report at the centre for basic training.
Read more about Death and poverty are the same to us - Exile Kids
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September 14, 2015, 5:00 pm
There are roughly seven weeks to go before the regional and local authority elections and one would not say it if one looks at the activities of the political parties.
If these were general and presidential elections, party rallies, flags and posters would be omnipresent.
Several political commentators say that President Hage Geingob, academics, and the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) are to blame for this lack of hype.
Read more about No election fever
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September 14, 2015, 5:00 pm
Mining and exploration company Weatherly International yesterday announced its decision to make about 220 employees at its Otjihase and Matchless copper mines redundant.
Workers at the two mines were informed of the decision by management yesterday. In a statement detailing the development, Weatherly CEO Craig Thomas said the decision was based on continuing decline in global copper prices, which had fallen by over 40% since 2011.
Current conditions had rendered both mines “commercially unviable”, he said.
Read more about Weatherly mothballs two mines
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September 14, 2015, 5:00 pm
Before Namibia’s independence, the San were a marginalised people who more often than not were paid in tombo and rumours persist that in those years, they would sell their children to commercial farmers due to their alcohol addiction.
It appears as though nothing has changed.
A group of young San women yesterday lifted the veil on a community whose plight has only worsened in the 25 years since independence.
Read more about Slow demise of the world’s oldest tribe
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September 14, 2015, 5:00 pm
The marathon high treason trial is now close to completion after Judge Elton Hoff ordered the conviction of 30 of the 65 accused on charges of high treason, murder and attempted murder.
He found that the remaining 35 are not guilty of the said charges.
Government institutions like the Katima Mulilo Police Station, Mpacha Military Base and Namibian Broadcasting Corporation were attacked on August 2, 1999 as part of an attempt to secede the then Caprivi Region from Namibia.
Read more about Free at last
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September 14, 2015, 11:29 pm
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September 16, 2015, 5:00 pm
So after working for two or three years at your current work station, the question of whether to buy a car or not must have crossed your mind.
For those that have come to the conclusion of taking this bold step, here are a few options to choose from and things to consider.
This week we’re looking at some entry level vehicles to consider, for those that want to join the car owners club.
To begin with we look at buying a new car.
Read more about What car to buy
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September 16, 2015, 5:00 pm
A police officer based at Hosea Kutako International Airport says he found one of the Chinese nationals standing trial in Namibia’s biggest rhino-horn smuggling case hiding in a toilet, sitting with his feet on top of the toilet.
Li Xiaoliang, Li Zhibing, Pu Xuexin and Wang Hui appeared in the Windhoek Regional Court in Katutura yesterday for the continuation of their trial. They were arrested when trying to smuggle 14 rhino horns worth more than N$2.3 million and a leopard skin of N$50 000 out of Namibia last year.
Read more about Pu hid in toilet
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September 16, 2015, 5:00 pm
Gerhard Komeya, 48, who killed his prison warden girlfriend out of jealousy, has been sentenced to 41 years and six months’ imprisonment for murder, attempted murder and malicious damage to property.
Komeya was sentenced to 30 years for murder with direct intent, 10 years for attempted murder, and two years for pointing a firearm, of which one year was ordered to run concurrently with the murder sentence.
Read more about Killer of prison warden gets 41 years
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September 16, 2015, 5:00 pm
Yet another Namibian who went into exile to participate in the armed liberation struggle, but was not repatriated with fellow exiles in 1989, was discovered in Angola recently.
Haiwila Daniel was incidentally found by a relative, Ndapewoshali Shikongo, at Ohaindele village east of Oihole in the southern Cunene province of Angola last month.
Shikongo, who is an upcoming entrepreneur, said she went to Ohaindele village on a business trip and found her uncle, long considered dead.
Read more about Another ex-combatant found in Angola
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September 16, 2015, 5:00 pm
The new Public Procurement Bill tabled in the National Assembly this week will seek to empower small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as well as previously disadvantaged Namibians.
These are defined as people who were socially, economically or educationally disadvantaged by past discriminatory laws or practices.
Another key element of the Bill is the power given to the Minister of Finance to keep secret the procurement of some goods by the Namibian Defence Force, Police, Correctional Service and Central Intelligence Service.
Read more about New rules for tenders
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September 16, 2015, 5:00 pm
A decision this week by London-based Weatherly Mining Namibia to lay off workers at two Namibian mines and focus resources on improving production at another was done in bad faith.
This was said by Namibian National Labour Organisation (NANLO) President Evilastus Kaaronda yesterday when he spoke to about 100 of the 220 workers who received retrenchment notices on Monday.
The union said it would fight the company’s decision to make the workers redundant. Kaaronda suggested that the company’s approach could be challenged in terms of the labour law.
Read more about Weatherly workers get hope
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September 16, 2015, 5:00 pm
The Windhoek High Court has dismissed both the State and the defence counsel’s applications to appeal against the 12-year sentence imposed on the former treasurer of the Outjo municipality, Dawid Koen.
Judge Alfred Siboleka dismissed both applications, saying they had no prospect of succeeding.
“In an application for leave to appeal, the applicant is required to satisfy the trial court that he has reasonable prospects of success on appeal,” he said.
Read more about Court rejects appeals against Koen sentence
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September 16, 2015, 11:42 pm
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September 17, 2015, 5:00 pm
Employment Equity Commissioner Vilbard Usiku has confirmed that Salini SpA recruited a number of foreigners at the expense of Namibians.
Usiku was responding to a report by Namibian Sun citing irregularities and inconsistencies in the recruitment of certain foreign skilled and unskilled workers by the company. Usiku also said Salini could not furnish him with proof of vacancy advertisements in the local media for all jobs that are currently filled by non-Namibians.
Read more about Salini in contempt of Nam labour law
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September 17, 2015, 5:00 pm
The body of Alfred Ward, a paramedic at E-Med Rescue 24 Namibia who died on duty in a place crash in Cape Town, arrived in Swakopmund on Wednesday.
His body was received by his father, Terrance Ward, as well as family and friends at the Swakopmund cemetery's morgue.
Ward will be buried at the same cemetery tomorrow.
The 24-year-old Ward died in Cape Town on August 16 while transporting a South African citizen, Gabriel le Roux, 80, from Oranjemund to Cape Town for medical treatment.
Read more about Crash victim's body arrives
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