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Police choppers get a home in Oshakati
The police yesterday inaugurated a N$14.8 million helicopter facility in Oshakati to strengthen the fight against crime in northern Namibia. Speaking at the inauguration of the revamped police...
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Ya Nangoloh calls for poaching inquiry
The executive director of Namrights, Phil ya Nangoloh, says an independent commission of inquiry is needed to fight poaching in the country “because of the deep involvement by high-ranking political...
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Job lands top job
Youth activist Job Amupanda has been appointed as the deputy dean of the University of Namibia’s Faculty of Economics and Management Science. The appointment makes Amupanda the youngest dean at...
View ArticleLikoro gets 10 years
The Katima Mulilo Regional Court has sentenced Swapo official Vincent Likoro to 10 years’ imprisonment after he was found guilty of raping a female colleague in July 2013. Magistrate Bongani Ndlovu...
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Registration fees fall
After months of simmering discontent, students at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) yesterday scored a big victory after a lockdown protest saw the university management and...
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Anti-smoking backlash
Impractical, senseless and a threat to their business This is how liquor industry associations described South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s plan to ban smoking in public places last week....
View ArticleZim ATMs run out of cash
A snap survey by the Zimbabwe Independent has found that there is a biting cash shortage which has forced banks to lower their daily automated teller machine (ATM) withdrawal limits from US$3 000 (N$50...
View ArticleSceptics of Iran nuclear deal ‘all proven wrong’ - Rouhani
President Hassan Rouhani says sceptics who had warned a nuclear deal with world powers would not bring benefits to Iran “were all proven wrong.“Within a few hours” of the nuclear deal being implemented...
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Zim ATMs run out of cash
A snap survey by the Zimbabwe Independent has found that there is a biting cash shortage which has forced banks to lower their daily automated teller machine (ATM) withdrawal limits from US$3 000 (N$50...
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The faces behind #VarsityLockDown
The protest action on Thursday of last week yielded positive results for the students of the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) and Unam with the cancellation of registration fees and...
View ArticleFees may have not fallen
Government’s helping hand will only be extended to those who deserve it. This was confirmed by the Minister of Higher Education, Training and Innovation Dr Itha Kandji-Murangi who said it makes no...
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Shaningwa blasts opponents of new Bill
The Minister of Urban and Rural Development Sophia Shaningwa has slammed local authorities who oppose the proposed amendments to the Local Authorities Act, 23 of 1992, saying government cannot allow...
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Weekend classes kick off in the North
Just a week after schools opened, learners from Ongwediva Junior Secondary School were seen going to school on Saturday morning. The Oshana acting education director, Immanuel Haipanda, said if the...
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Food prices skyrocket in Angola
The cost of basic food products in Angola’s southern Cunene Province has doubled because of the Namibian currency gaining strength against the kwanza, the Jornal de Angola newspaper has reported. This,...
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Dairy sector beats the odds
Increased sales in the last three months of 2015 appear to have bolstered Namibia’s struggling dairy industry. Feared last year to be on the brink of collapse due to what local producer Namibia Dairies...
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Dunes Mall impasse resolved
More than 50 construction workers employed by a Chinese-owned company JZC subcontracted at the N$480 million Dunes Mall project in Walvis Bay briefly withdrew their services on Friday. The workers were...
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Suspected syndicate targets Otji farmers
The Namibia Agricultural Union will meet with police Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga on the increase in farm invasions and other security issues on February 1. This follows two attacks in the...
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Meatco halts abattoir operations
Meatco will no longer operate and manage the two government-owned abattoirs in the Northern Communal Area (NCA) after accumulating immense losses for several years. As a result of these operational...
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