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Nudo appoints youngest youth leader

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Twenty-year-old Veparura Kandirikirira has been unanimously elected as Nudo Youth League acting secretary-general, making him the youngest among his peers in the country.
He was elected at the wing’s national council meeting at the weekend.
Kandirikirira has been serving as the NudoYL national organiser and will continue in both positions until an extraordinary congress of the youth wing is called before the party’s elective congress in 2018.
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NEEEF intends to ‘banish whites’

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The proposed black economic empowerment legislation is causing jitters among white professionals who feel they are being pushed to the limit, and out of the country of their birth.
A Windhoek-based white male lawyer has approached the immigration and refugee board of the Canadian government to find out if the proposed National Equitable Economic Empowerment Bill of 2015 (NEEEF) would constitute a substantive factor in assessing applications for economic asylum or refugee status received by white Namibians.
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Struggle kids refuse to budge

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The group of over 200 children of the liberation struggle, also known as struggle kids, camping at the Swapo Oshana regional office in Oshakati say they won’t vacate the premises unless they are assured of jobs.
This is the group’s reaction to a radio announcement made on Friday that all struggle kids camping at Swapo regional offices countrywide must return home and wait for further instructions since they had already registered with the government.
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Daniels takes on Shanghala

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Media Ombudsman Clement Daniels has warned Attorney-General Sackey Shanghala not to trample the rights of the media and the public for political expediency.
This follows reports that Shanghala went for Daniels during a National Assembly debate where he said the media ombudsman was not to be trusted and that he had failed to respond to requests sent to his office.
Daniels reminded the politician that he knew secrets about cabinet ministers which Shanghala had allegedly confided in him, but he had never told anyone about that.
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Skorpion Zinc and union reach agreement

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The Skorpion Zinc Mine has successfully concluded wage negotiations with the Mineworkers’ Union of Namibia (MUN).
Skorpion Zinc spokesperson Nora Ndopu told Namibian Sun that the wage deal would come into effect on April 1, 2016.
According to the agreement, continuous operation employees will receive a 4% increase, while clerical workers and engineering employees will get 6% and 5% respectively.
In addition, the parties agreed to a N$500 increase in housing allowances for employees performing continuous operations.
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Couple get 20 years for child rape

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A couple in the Zambezi Region have been sentenced to jail for raping a minor in 2007.
The Katima Mulilo Regional Court last week sentenced Mbumbo Mkelenge Maanda and his wife, Joreen Samalopa, to 20 years’ imprisonment each for raping an 11-year-old girl at Sampingo Village in the Sachona area.
Magistrate Willem Kasitome sentenced the couple to ten years each on the two counts of rape. Maanda and Samalopa were aged 26 and 36 when they committed the crime in May 2007.
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Shanghala and Daniels tit-for-tat continues

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Attorney-General Sackey Shanghala says he never discussed Cabinet ministers’ secrets with Media Ombudsman Clement Daniels in 2014, as he was not part of that group of ministers at the time.
Daniels said on Monday that during the public debate on the issue of the Lüderitz name change in 2014, Shanghala had shared some confidential information with him concerning his “Cabinet colleagues”.
Daniels then warned Shanghala not to trample the rights of the media and the public for political expediency.
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Geingob, Pohamba and Nujoma meet

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President Hage Geingob yesterday met with his predecessors, Hifikepunye Pohamba and Sam Nujoma, for the inaugural meeting of the President’s Advisory Council.
The council may later include former prime ministers and their deputies and Geingob has always maintained that the platform is important for “camaraderie, consultation and the continuity of government policy”.
The council is set to meet twice a year.
Geingob described yesterday’s meeting as a “historic”, adding that the council was an informal arrangement that he initiated to exemplify the “New Africa”.
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Dumpsite murder investigation almost complete

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An investigation into the murder of two women whose burnt bodies were discovered at a dumpsite in Windhoek earlier this year is almost complete.
This was confirmed by the police’s Khomas Region crime investigation coordinator, Deputy Commissioner Silvanus Nghishidimbwa.
The only accused in the double murder, Lukas Nicodemus, is to make his second court appearance today in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court.
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Tombstones stolen at Okaku

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Criminals have stolen expensive tombstones from a cemetery at Onawa village in the Okaku Constituency of the Oshana Region, leaving residents shocked and asking questions.
Village headman Abisai Shikulo described the theft of four gravestones as a macabre act, while constituency councillor Hanu Kapenda said it was a sign of how the love of money was corrupting the moral fibre of Namibian society. The tombstones were stolen from the graves of Toini Nashipolo, Martha Raimund, Michael Nambadhi and Johannes Iimene.
“This is shocking,” said Kapenda.
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Disabled regain Ehafo possession

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Judge Hosea Angula, the deputy judge president, yesterday restored possession of the former Ehafo vocational training centre in Klein Windhoek to the government.
The judge granted a spoliation order in respect of Erf 235, which was brought by the government on December 11 last year.
The government and the ministry of Higher Education, Training and Innovation had brought the urgent application against the trustees of the Ehafo Trust: Andrew Matjila, Rolene Boer, Dora Lebereki-Thlabanella, Paul Helmut, Tia Protection Services and Walter Louw.
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End of the road for bad drivers

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In an effort to improve road safety in Windhoek a points demerit system could be implemented soon, which could lead to a clash between taxi drivers and the police.
In addition, as part of a City Police campaign to crack down on negligent drivers, all commercial and public transport drivers could soon face extensive competency tests before being re-issued with the necessary permits.
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Loudima students return home

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A group of students who say they begged to be withdrawn from the Loudima Institute for Technical and Vocational Training in the Republic of Congo landed in Windhoek on Saturday.
The students yesterday demanded that their fellow students who are still based at the Loudima Institute also be brought back as soon as possible.
Furthermore the group said they want the Ministry of Higher Education, which funded their studies in the Congo, to help them enrol in “vocational training or an institution according to our qualifications”.
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Chinese-sponsored school opens

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Vice-President Nickey Iyambo has urged parents and community members to jealously guard and maintain the new Otjomuise Secondary School.
The school, built with a generous N$160 million investment from the People’s Republic of China, was officially opened by Iyambo yesterday.
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Taxi union responds to new traffic regulations

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The Namibia Transport and Taxi Union (NTTU) is set on a collision course with local authorities should new traffic rules be imposed without first addressing labour and infrastructure concerns voiced by the union.
NTTU president Werner Januarie yesterday said the union was not set against new traffic regulations, including a proposed demerit points system, but the “authorities cannot jump two, three points ahead” without first resolving critical labour and infrastructure issues.
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Air Namibia 'must be privatised'

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The national airline has been described in parliament as a non-essential commercial state-owned enterprise that is milking the Treasury and should be privatised.
This was said by RDP secretary-general Mike Kavekotora during the budget debate in the National Assembly this week.
He said although Air Namibia’s subsidies had not been reflected in the national budgets before 2007, the cumulative bailouts for the national airline from independence up to the 2018/2019 financial year exceeded N$10 billion.
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I have not demanded respect: Geingob

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President Hage Geingob says he has never demanded respect from anyone and if anybody disrespects him or another elder it is a reflection of their upbringing and not in line with the Swapo culture.
Geingob made this remark when he met the leaders of the Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) at State House yesterday.
This came after an assurance by SPYL acting secretary Veikko Nekundi that the youth would respect the party elders “as African children”.
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