Namibia can solve land crisis - Ngurare

July 8, 2015, 5:00 pm

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The secretary of the Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) Elijah Ngurare says Namibia’s answer to the growing demand for land is in its backyard.
Ngurare made the remarks following the announcement that the Katima Mulilo Town Council had made available
1 000 plots for landless youth in the Zambezi Region.
“The announcement that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Lwayaha landless group comprising over 5000 landless people must be commended by all,” said Ngurare.
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Welwitschias ready to maul Russians

July 8, 2015, 5:56 pm

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Namibia’s national rugby team, the Welwitschias, received a boost yesterday in their bid to start the final stretch of their preparations for the Rugby World Cup (RWC) in England.
This after Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL), through their Windhoek Draught brand, affirmed that they will sponsor the team’s clashes against Russia (this Saturday, July 11 and July 18).
The sponsorship will also extend to two African Cup ties against Kenya (August 8) and Zimbabwe (August 15) as well as a camp the team will undertake in Durban, South Africa, during that month.
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Coaching merry-go-round to intensify

July 9, 2015, 5:00 pm

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There will be a lot of wheeling and dealing when it comes to coaching positions in the MTC Namibia Premier League (NPL) in the coming weeks.
With the new football season due to start in a month’s time, the race is on as teams in the elite league battle to fill their vacancies.
The merry-go-round got under way this week when Tigers announced they had swooped on former Black Africa coach Brian Isaacs.
This came in the wake of the ending of the three-year contract of Bobby Samaria, who had occupied that position.
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Church has failed - Geingob

July 9, 2015, 5:00 pm

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The high incidence of gender-based violence and poverty in the country is an indication that churches are failing and family structures are weak, President Hage Geingob said yesterday.
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CRIME

Erven the focus of Walvis budget

July 9, 2015, 5:00 pm

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Land development projects have been allocated N$171 million, representing more than half of Walvis Bay’s N$336 million capital budget.
The council plans to deliver approximately 1 500 erven in all suburbs in Walvis Bay in the next financial year. Provision has also been made for the development of 74 industrial erven.
Councillor Tony Raw presented the capital and operational budgets for 2015/16 and provided a synopsis on behalf of Management Committee chairman Immanuel Wilfred to Mayor Uilika Nambahu, who tabled it for approval.
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News emerges about Harry’s work in Namibia

July 9, 2015, 5:00 pm

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News about Prince Harry’s conservation work in Namibia finally emerged this week.
Harry was in the Kunene Region this week, apparently working with a team from the Ministry of Environment and Tourism on a rhino dehorning project.
He has already left for southern Namibia, where he will be involved in research projects.
The British prince is in the company of the well-known veterinarian Dr Pete Morkel, who has also been involved with Namibia’s rhino dehorning programme for many years.
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PEOPLE

HH congratulates Nambinga

July 9, 2015, 5:00 pm

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The founding president of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), Hidipo Hamutenya, yesterday congratulated his successor, Jeremiah Nambinga.
Hamutenya who founded the RDP with Nambinga and others, retired from the top post in February amidst allegations of pressure from the party.
Nambinga was up against Peter Naholo, Libolly Haufiku, Heiko Lucks, Kandy Nehova and Christiaan Nguherimo for the leadership.
In the second round of voting Nambinga emerged victorious by winning by 201 votes to Nehova’s 198.
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POLITICS

NEFF to honour Gaddafi

July 9, 2015, 5:00 pm

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The Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) have started with preparations to commemorate the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The commemorative event is scheduled for October 20, but details about the venue and the invited speakers will only be made known later.
Addressing a press conference at Oshakati on Wednesday afternoon, NEFF’s Commissar for Policy Research and Political Education, Abraham Ndumbu, said his party plans to make the commemoration of Gaddafi’s death an annual event in Namibia.
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Ndatipo inquest: Cops fired 25 bullets

July 9, 2015, 5:00 pm

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The inquest into the death of slain struggle kid Frieda Ndatipo heard chilling details yesterday with Advocate Danie Small – who led the Ombudsman’s investigation into the matter – saying there was no bullet found in the victim’s body despite 25 cartridges spent.
This means that they could not match any bullet to a specific firearm.
Small also told the inquest that their investigation couldn’t determine the exact bullet that might have killed Ndatipo.
“We could not find the bullet to link it to a firearm,” Small said.
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Where our Brave Warriors are born

July 9, 2015, 5:56 pm

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Namibia’s next generation of footballers got their chance to strut their stuff when DTS hosted the latest instalment of minor league football games.
The action took place at the DTS Field on Wednesday.
Even though there are only a few clubs that participate in the league, it does not stop everyone from having fun.
The clubs that competed on Wednesday were DTS, SKW, Ramblers and a new addition to the league, Falcons.
Because of the scarcity of female football players, the teams are allowed to have both boys and girls in the same side.
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Warriors’ support staff left out in the cold

July 12, 2015, 5:00 pm

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The Brave Warriors’ technical team have not received any rewards for their part in steering the senior national team to win its first football silverware.
The nine-member technical team was instrumental in Namibia’s victory at the 2015 Confederation of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) Cup in South Africa in May this year.
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Gender-based violence out of hand

July 12, 2015, 5:00 pm

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This year alone a staggering 822 cases of gender-based violence have been reported.
This was revealed by First Lady Monica Geingos when she launched the Zero Tolerance Media Campaign against gender Based Violence 2015 on Friday.
This year’s campaign is taking place under the theme ‘Spot It to Stop It.’
According to her, data on violence and GBV is an essential tool to craft strategies and identify trends in communities. However, such data is often outdated.
She said the fact that one out of three women is exposed to GBV is “frightening”.
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Seven officers injured in PM motorcade crash

July 12, 2015, 5:00 pm

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Two members of the police’s Special Reserve Force (SRF) were seriously injured and five others suffered mild to slight injuries while they were part of Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila’s motorcade on Saturday.
According to the police’s Deputy Commissioner Karl Theron, the Prime Minister was travelling from Outapi in the Omusati Region when the accident happened as the motorcade entered Oshakati at noon.
The accident happened at the traffic lights near the Oshakati Open Market when the last vehicle of the motorcade collided with an oncoming Nissan bakkie.
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Onandjokwe salary crisis over

July 12, 2015, 5:00 pm

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The crisis at the Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital that threatened to degenerate into a full-scale work stoppage last week was resolved after the hospital staff’s outstanding salaries for June were finally deposited into their bank accounts.
Nurses, cleaners and other institutional workers staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the administration block on Wednesday and threatened to seal off the hospital should their outstanding salaries not be paid into their bank accounts within 24 hours.
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Off-duty cop saw struggle kid with pistol

July 12, 2015, 5:00 pm

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An off-duty Namibian Police officer said he saw a slender man who was in the group of Children of the Liberation Struggle firing a shot in the air while they were marching past the Hakahana service station on their way to the Swapo headquarters in Katutura.
Sergeant Mbuche Reuben Mwinga was one of two witnesses who testified on Friday at the inquest into the death of struggle kid Frieda Ndatipo, who was shot dead at the Swapo headquarters on August 27 last year.
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Germany finally recognises Namibian genocide

July 12, 2015, 5:00 pm

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More than 100 years after the massacre of thousands of OvaHerero and Nama people by imperial German troops, Germany has finally acknowledged that it was a genocide.
This follows last week’s centenary of the end of German colonial rule of Namibia.
According to international media, Germany is set to officially recognise the 1904-1908 genocide.
A Namibian delegation led by OvaHerero Paramount Chief Vekuii Rukoro and the chairperson of the Nama Genocide Technical Committee, Ida Hoffman, visited Germany last week for talks on the genocide. Read more about Germany finally recognises Namibian genocide

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Rent is killing the nation, says Shaningwa

July 12, 2015, 5:00 pm

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Government understands the cry of young people who spend on average N$7 000 of their N$10 000 monthly pay on rent, the Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Sophia Shaningwa, said last week.
This follows the announcement of 89 resolutions government has made to ease the burden of property prices.
“We have learned with concern that people who earn N$10 000 must pay N$7 000 [for rent] while they must still put food on the table, pay for taxi transport and send money home to their parents,” she said, adding that rent is killing the nation.
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‘July 31 is too far’

July 12, 2015, 5:00 pm

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Hundreds of Windhoek residents cleared land in the Goreangab area yesterday, claiming to be tired of renting a place to live.
A stand-off between the land grabbers and more than 100 police officers ended peacefully when the angry mob dispersed, vowing to return to “their plots”.
At one stage the crowd accused the armed police officers of “wanting to kill them like they killed Frieda Ndatipo”.
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Namibia to tap into Green Climate Fund

July 13, 2015, 5:00 pm

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According to the Ministry of Environment and Tourism Namibia will join Rwanda as the only two African countries accredited by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) out of 116 applications.
This means that the institutions accredited, and in Namibia’s case, the Environmental Fund of Namibia, will act as channel through which the Fund will deploy its resources.
It also means that Namibia will be able to access grant funding totalling N$588 million or more to finance climate change mitigation strategies.
This offers Namibia an opportunity to build a climate-resilient economy.
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Struggle kids were armed and dangerous

July 13, 2015, 5:00 pm

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A police officer who testified yesterday at the inquest into the death of struggle kid Frieda Ndatipo described the Children of the Liberation Struggle (CLS) as violent. Inspector Bennet Muyambango of Nampol said they were always armed with objects such as sticks and were insulting - even towards leaders.
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