Year: 2018

WINDHOEK - The most recent statistical data from the Bank of Namibia (BoN) for August 2018 that covers, amongst others, the extension of credit to the private sector (PSCE) shows that total credit extended to the private sector rose by 1.5 percent from N$93,409 million in July to N$94,783 million in August 2018. 

WINHDOEK – This year’s annual Windhoek Industrial and Agricultural Show has received scathing reviews from some exhibitors who blame poor turnout to the ongoing economic crisis in the country.  

WINDHOEK – The subdued domestic, regional and global economies are constantly searching for light at the end of what seems to be a never-ending  tunnel and the recent decision in South Africa to decriminalise cannabis for private

WINDHOEK – Aside from the populist rhetoric, and a sideway demonstration that accompanied the opening of the second national land conference this week, delegates must, by this Friday, reach consensus on key issues. 

Life has many questions. One of the questions which occupied the minds of our people for more than a century is the land question. Many questions in life have easy solutions, but not all solutions also answer any question.

RUNDU - Former Rundu mayor, Hilka Leevi, 66, who died last Friday in the Rundu Intermediate Hospital where she had been hospitalised for the past two weeks will be interred at her home village of Sikondo at a date to be announced soon by her family.

WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Industrial and Agricultural Show being hosted by the Windhoek Show Society that started last Friday and ends Saturday despite having had a massive fireworks display has been described as the worst ever in terms of appeal.

WINDHOEK - The Katutura Magistrate’s Court has set a date to pronounce itself on the formal bail application of Johannes Neuaka, 39, who stands accused of fatally gunning down his girlfriend and mother of his child last January.

WINDHOEK - Lukas Nepela Nikodemus, the man charged with the murder and burning of two young women at a rubbish dump in Pionierspark suburb in Windhoek, wants the Windhoek High Court to release him on bail pending his trial. 

WINDHOEK - The trial of prominent Windhoek lawyer Dirk Conradie and his long-time friend Sara Ngenohani Damases resumed in the Windhoek High Court yesterday with Mark Bongers, the man who taped a conversation he had with Conradie, facing cross-examination.