Year: 2018

RUNDU - Northern Regional Electricity Distributor (Nored) has once again cut off electricity to government irrigation projects Shadikongoro and Ndonga Linena in Kavango East Region due to arrears.

WINDHOEK – The Prosecutor-General has decided to prosecute three men who stand accused of stealing N$1.1 million from Air Namibia.  

BERSEBA - Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila says businesses should be more socially responsible and invest back some of their profits into the communities they derived it from.

ONDANGWA – Besides being allegedly hit with a belt buckle and had a knife thrown at her, a 10-year-old girl was allegedly recently burnt with boiling water by her stepmother after forgetting to switch of a geyser.

WINDHOEK- Despite the fact Namibia’s poverty levels being evident, the ministry tasked to alleviate poverty failed to fully utilise allocated funds of N$26 million meant to roll out food banks to other regions. The food bank has only been rolled out in Khomas Region thus far.

WINDHOEK - President Hage Geingob says it is pertinent to demonstrate the political will of the United Nations membership with regards to redressing Africa’s exclusion from the international body’s Security Council. 

WINDHOEK - Police in Hardap Region were yesterday busy investigating the senseless killing of a 57-year-old woman whose decapitated foot was discovered late Tuesday afternoon along the Bahnhof-Dordabis road.

WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Central Prison is home to a total number of 950 sentenced offenders in its facilities, while 113 offenders are awaiting trial.

WINDHOEK – The timely intervention by Vice-President Nangolo Mbumba yesterday halted an envisaged boycott by traditional leaders and civil society groups of the eagerly awaited national land conference, slated for next week.

WINDHOEK – Namibia’s leading boxing promoter Nestor “Sunshine” Tobias, aka the Don King of African boxing, is fuming as a result of what he terms deliberate systematic sabotage by blokes who have an axe to grind with him.