Year: 2018

The controversies that have overshadowed the American presidency of Donald Trump since he took office could have brought down any American president and sent them packing.

WINDHOEK- Kai-||Khaun Traditional Authority Chief Simon Petrus Kooper has called for the chairmanship of the Council of Traditional Leaders to be rotated over a period of five years.

WINDHOEK – Previously disadvantaged Namibians own only 16 percent of freehold agricultural land, even after 28 years of government efforts to redistribute land to the black majority.

KAMANJAB - The chairperson of Kamanjab Village Council, Jan Niklaas Hendriks, 51, resigned early this month due to alleged interference by the Swapo District Executive Committee Coordinator Samora Katjau.

WINDHOEK - Former CEO of the Roads Contractor Company (RCC), Kelly Nghixulifa has requested the Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg to quash counts 1, 6, 9 and 10 in the indictment he faces in relation to charges of fraud and contravening the ACC Act.

WINDHOEK - The eleventh Chinese-Bridge Proficiency competition for secondary students took place yesterday at the University of Namibia (Unam) Gym Hall. 

ONGWEDIVA - The 14-year-old alleged to have sodomised a five-year-old boy at an informal settlement in Oshakati was denied bail when he made a brief in-camera appearance in court.

Our Star of the Week is the Minister of Higher Education Minister Dr Itah Kandjii- Murangi for her swift intervention that saved the jobs of 44 workers who were retrenched at the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT).

TSUMEB -Tsumeb Municipality is slowly starting to reap the benefits from its newly commissioned multi-million-dollar solar power plant project, that was set up to reduce the escalating electricity bill, which emanates from its 24-hour water pump station. 

WINDHOEK - Chief of the Masubia tribe Kisco Liswani III is concerned about the escalation in the number of fishermen from neighbouring Zambia who overfish using unsustainable fishing methods involving prohibited nets in Namibian waters.