Namibia can solve land crisis - Ngurare
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...
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Welwitschias ready to maul Russians
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...
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Coaching merry-go-round to intensify
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,...
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Church has failed - Geingob
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. The President is...
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Erven the focus of Walvis budget
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...
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News emerges about Harry’s work in Namibia
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...
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HH congratulates Nambinga
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,...
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NEFF to honour Gaddafi
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...
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Ndatipo inquest: Cops fired 25 bullets
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...
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Where our Brave Warriors are born
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....
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Warriors’ support staff left out in the cold
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...
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Gender-based violence out of hand
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...
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Seven officers injured in PM motorcade crash
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...
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Onandjokwe salary crisis over
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...
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Off-duty cop saw struggle kid with pistol
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...
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Germany finally recognises Namibian genocide
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...
View ArticleRent is killing the nation, says Shaningwa
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...
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‘July 31 is too far’
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...
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Namibia to tap into Green Climate Fund
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...
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Struggle kids were armed and dangerous
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...
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