Currently, the world is grappling with Covid-19’s effect in the health, socio-economic, political and cultural sectors. However, the spread of this pandemic has struck even harder industries such as the sporting sector.
Heading into his first-ever professional fight beyond African borders, Namibia’s African Boxing Union (ABU) featherweight champion Nathaniel ‘Natty’ Kakololo says nothing will stop him from becoming the new WBO featherweight inter-continental champion.
In direct economic contribution to Namibia, the Uis Tin Mine in the Erongo region has spent close to N$200 million on mine development and the majority of this expenditure has taken place locally.
Finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi yesterday said he was concerned about the misrepresentation of national policy measures as conditionalities of the N$3.9 billion budget deficit financing loan arrangement Namibia secured from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in March this year.
The Namibian Correctional Service (NCS) says there is no overcrowding or need for decongestion of offenders due to Covid-19 in the country’s 14 correctional facilities.
A 41-year-old Zambian witchdoctor who has allegedly been conducting healing processes around the Zambezi region, was fined N$6 000 in the Katima Mulilo Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
Namibian DJs honestly put up with a lot. Namibian DJs have to put up with an ignorant bunch from all walks of life. Namibian DJs have to put up with an ignorant reveller. Namibian DJs have to put up with crooked event organisers/promoters. Namibian DJs have to put up with inexperienced and ignorant MCs. Mbuae...bless our DJs.
Two female NBC TV anchors were on Wednesday evening caught in an awkward position when one scolded the other on how she wanted to be greeted and her segment introduced during a live television broadcast of the 20h00 news.
In a Miss Namibia edition with strong competitors and no obvious frontrunners, standing out would have been easier said than done. But the feat was seemingly effortless for Chelsi Shikongo, who wowed audiences and the judges – not only with her beauty and elegance but her fluency and grace.
Of late, there has been emerging thoughts and ideas on what the world is all about. In all discussions of this kind though, it all eventually boils down to perception. How one perceives the world determines their life experience. This would then mean that whoever wishes to control one’s life and experience, can simply do so by controlling one’s perception.
The history of the Namibian liberation struggle cannot be complete without the contributions and sacrifices made by the sons and daughters from Chixhu-Sesheke-Singalamwe corridor.
From what I have read, Germany is trying to exonerate itself from the crime of genocide it has committed against the Ovaherero and Nama people in 1904-1908. In order to achieve that, it is dishonestly manipulating the process of negotiations.
We go down vastly different paths in life; our choices are our choices and they are not necessarily wrong but just different. We all have a unique set of life experiences that prompt us to think and perceive things in a certain way. In fact, the aspect of human cognition is that we see the world through our own eyes.
It is getting colder outside and the third wave of Covid-19 is about to hit us. By all accounts, it seems like this is the worst period we have ever had to live through. To most people, it is a bleak time and it is in times like these that we miss and underplay our achievements.
Last year, Windhoek lost the status of being the cleanest city in Africa to Rwanda’s Kigali but today, Gabriel Hamunyela is hands on deck, aiming at keeping not only the city but Namibia as a whole, clean through his company, Gee and Sons Trading.
