Year: 2018

TOULOUSE - When I arrived in Windhoek, I really did not know what to expect. I had never been to Africa before and without knowing anyone in Namibia, I wanted to see something different.

OMUTHIYA - A conducive learning environment is one of the factors that contribute to a good education system, however this is the opposite with the under-resourced Limbandungila kindergarten and pre-school, where pupils are taught in a matchbox ramshackle building.

KATIMA MULILO - The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) will commence with the construction of its new regional office in Zambezi after it handed over the site to the constractor yesterday.

KATIMA MULILO - Section A of the multimillion Namalubi-Isize-Luhonono road is expected to be completed by December after the contractor made massive progress after floodwaters subsided.

WINDHOEK - Windhoek City Police services staff visited the bereaved family of late Cheryl Avihe Ujaha, 9, at their family home on Friday morning and extended their sympathy to the family. 

WINDHOEK - Chief Justice, Peter Shivute has denied a petition from eight persons still facing charges of high treason, murder, attempted murder, sedition, public violence, and illegal importation of weapons and ammunition directed at him to appeal a decision by Acting High Court Judge Petrus Unengu on the jurisdiction of the Namibian High Court to try them.

WINDHOEK - The court refused to relax bail conditions of three men accused of defrauding the Office of the Judiciary of over N$400,000 in a witness fees scam. 

WINDHOEK -The end of the listeriosis outbreak in South Africa as declared yesterday means the chances for Namibia to have a similar outbreak are nullified, according to the deputy director for public and environmental health in the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Benson Ntomwa. 

WALVIS BAY - State prosecutor for the N$206 million cocaine case, Salmon Kanyemba says lawyer Sisa Namandje’s argument in the state’s case is weak, Namandje argued the evidence collected during the arrest of Grant Noble and Dinath Azahr is baseless and will be inadmissible during the trial.

WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Thomas Masuku says he will deliver his judgment in the urgent application Finance Minister, Calle Schlettwein and the Namibia National Reinsurance Corporation (NamibRe) launched to compel eight insurance companies to re-insure with NamibRe according to the NamibRe Act 22 of 1998 on September 20 after listening to two days of arguments.