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Boxing is my passion
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...
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How to create jobs
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...
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‘High roller’ linked to rhino horn case
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...
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Death and poverty are the same to us - Exile Kids
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...
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No election fever
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...
View ArticleWeatherly mothballs two mines
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...
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Slow demise of the world’s oldest tribe
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...
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Free at last
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...
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What car to buy
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...
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Pu hid in toilet
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...
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Killer of prison warden gets 41 years
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....
View ArticleAnother ex-combatant found in Angola
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...
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New rules for tenders
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...
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Weatherly workers get hope
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...
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Court rejects appeals against Koen sentence
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....
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Salini in contempt of Nam labour law
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...
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Crash victim's body arrives
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,...
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