January 11, 2016, 4:00 pm
The man charged with last week’s horrific double murder yesterday told a Windhoek magistrate that he had received death threats in prison.
Lucas Nepela Nicodemus, 46, is charged with the murder of two women whose burnt bodies were found at a dumpsite on the outskirts of the city on Thursday morning.
Nicodemus, who threatened to commit suicide when he was arrested, appeared before the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
He said he had received death threats from Windhoek Central Prison inmates.
Read more about Double murder suspect ‘fears for his life’
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January 11, 2016, 10:17 pm
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January 12, 2016, 4:00 pm
Parents are advised to look for alternative schools in the Oshakati circuit as places for admission in the best-performing schools have become almost impossible to find.
Yesterday, some Oshakati parents were still trying to enrol their children.
A head of department at the Oshakati West Primary School, Mathew Taapopi, said parents kept showing up at the school but were advised to look for alternative schools.
Taapopi said more than 300 learners were on a waiting list at the school.
Read more about Oshakati parents search for school places
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January 12, 2016, 4:00 pm
The University of Namibia’s (Unam) rugby team may lose at least five players to teams from outside of the country.
According to Werner Jeffery, the head of rugby affairs at the university, clubs from France and South Africa have shown interest in the likes of Lesley Klim, Hilarius Kistings, Max Katjiteko, Kammi Mieze and Sylvano Beukes.
“We made profiles of them and sent them to clubs in France and South Africa. But while there are clubs that are interested nothing has been concluded,” Jeffery told Namibian Sun.
Read more about France, South Africa
beckon for university players
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January 12, 2016, 4:00 pm
Former WBO world middleweight boxing champion Harry ‘The Terminator’ Simon is said to be retiring from the sport.
A press statement issued yesterday announced that the two-weight world champion will launch a foundation, which will be called the Harry Simon Onkugo Foundation, on February 27.
On that date, the foundation will host a fundraising dinner at the Safari Court Hotel and Conference Centre.
Speaking to Namibian Sun yesterday, Amutenya Amoomo, who is set to become the foundation’s chairman, said Simon would no longer box competitively.
Read more about ‘Retiring’ Simon to focus on fundraising events
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January 12, 2016, 4:00 pm
Erwin Naimhwaka, the University of Namibia’s (Unam) athletics head coach, is determined to keep the spirits of his athletes high despite declining interest in track and field.
So much is his motivation that he is targeting to have at least one athlete qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Read more about Working towards Olympic qualification
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January 12, 2016, 4:00 pm
While rescue personnel yesterday battled to retrieve the bodies of two German women from the inhospitable Fish River Canyon, the Inspector-General of the Namibian Police, Sebastian Ndeitunga, confirmed that the police were investigating whether they had committed suicide.
The two women were reported missing last week Thursday and their bodies were found in the Fish River Canyon on Monday morning.
The mother (47) and daughter (28) had travelled to Namibia to collect the remains of a family member who had died in a car crash in December.
Read more about Tourists’ bodies retrieved from Canyon
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January 12, 2016, 4:00 pm
The Ministry of Health and Social Services has stopped providing emergency response services because of a shortage of ambulances and paramedics.
Critically ill state patients in Windhoek who need an ambulance from their homes to the Katutura State Hospital or the Windhoek Central Hospital are referred to the City of Windhoek’s ambulance service instead. The municipality has only four ambulances, making it hard to cater to all emergency calls.
Read more about Ambulance abuse costs the public dearly
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January 12, 2016, 4:00 pm
A seven-day-old baby was among four people killed and 15 others injured in a horrible accident about 60km outside Maltahöhe on Monday morning.
The 19 accident victims were all employees from Le-Mirage Resort and Spa and their children.
The lodge is situated about 21km from the Sesriem Gate to Sossusvlei in the Namib-Naukluft Park.
According to Deputy Commissioner Joseph Geiseb of the Hardap police, the accident was reported to them at about 08:00 on Monday.
Read more about Crash kills pupils, newborn
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January 12, 2016, 10:32 pm
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January 13, 2016, 4:00 pm
With boxing fast gaining ground in a bid to become Namibia’s number one sport, the year promises to be yet another fascinating one for the code.
Having already produced three world champions, Namibia is becoming a boxing fortress on the African continent and it appears ready to displace football as the country’s main sport.
Harry ‘The Terminator’ Simon set the trend of world beaters when he won the WBO light middleweight world title in 1998.
This was later followed up by Paulus ‘The Hitman’ Moses, who took the WBA world lightweight title in 2009.
Read more about Crunch time for rising stars
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January 13, 2016, 4:00 pm
The president of Kudus Rugby Club, Zane Jansen, is optimistic that his team will do much better this season in the Namibia Rugby Premier (NRP) league.
“So far so good with the team although we are not yet starting with full training,” said Jansen.
He said that the training is expected to start this coming Monday at Kudus Rugby Club.
The Walvis Bay-based club has had inspiring performances, reaching the semi-final and losing 43-28 to Wanderers at the Hage Geingob Rugby Stadium in Windhoek.
Read more about Wanderers, Kudus eagerly await start to season
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January 13, 2016, 4:00 pm
The release of the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate (NSSC) Ordinary Level results is a continuation of the country’s consistently poor Grade 12 results that sees fewer than 7 000 learners meeting university entry requirements.
With limited vocational training and other institutions, thousands are to join the ranks of the unemployed.
The Minister of Education, Arts and Culture, Katrina Hanse-Himarwa, yesterday announced the results, revealing alarming statistics.
Read more about Dismal pass rate
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January 13, 2016, 4:00 pm
President Hage Geingob is set to review performance agreements signed by his cabinet ministers nearly a year after being appointed in their portfolios.
However, concerns are rife that the agreements were not made public, hence leaving room for speculation on any rewarding or reprimanding that may
follow.
The agreements signed last year are part of the government’s bid to hold senior public servants accountable and help restore public confidence. Read more about Geingob to review performance agreements
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January 13, 2016, 4:00 pm
Education Minister Katrina Hanse-Himarwa has issued a stern warning to public schools not to force parents to pay fees despite the government’s introduction of free secondary education.
“No Namibian child will be deprived or denied education, won’t even be denied copier paper or anything at schools because of money,” she said while making an impassioned defence of free education.
Read more about Schools who force parents to pay will be dealt with
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January 13, 2016, 4:00 pm
Omusati Governor Erigius Endjala said his investigations have revealed that the campsite next to the Outapi District Hospital is largely used by job seekers instead of pregnant women.
“It is Sodom and Gomorrah if you go there. They don’t come to the campsite pregnant, but they leave that place pregnant,” said Endjala.
Read more about Awaiting mothers’ campsite at Outapi a mess
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January 13, 2016, 4:00 pm
The details of how the German mother and daughter whose bodies were discovered in the Fish River Canyon this week spent their last few days in Namibia have started to emerge.
A traumatised man, who preferred to stay anonymous, told of how he had taken the mother (47) and her daughter (28) on Christmas Day to the Waterberg National Park where they had planned to scatter the ashes of Navinia Sarah Perry (22).
Perry was the daughter of the 48-year-old woman and the sister of the 29-year-old and had been killed in a car crash in Namibia last month.
Read more about ‘I feel guilty’
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January 13, 2016, 10:25 pm
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January 14, 2016, 4:00 pm
The Namibia School Sport Union (NSSU) will this year embark on sport development at primary and secondary school level in an effort to strengthen sport development in the country.
The NSSU provides opportunities for learners to become involved in sports and physical recreation activities at primary and secondary school level in order for them to realise their full potential.
Read more about NSSU sets sights on younger children
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January 14, 2016, 4:00 pm
Black Consciousness & the New Truth Commission led by #BlackTwitter is the headline I read on a story recently. And that in a way sums up what’s been happening, how more and more young people are becoming champions in the fight against racism, privilege and patriarchy. We are becoming much more aware of the environment we exist and function in, and less and less apologetic for the fact that some find it uncomfortable when we speak exclusion, racism and consciousness. This new, more casual approach to speaking out has been championed by “Woke Twitter”. Read more about I am #Woke, join me
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