WINDHOEK – The prosecutor general has decided to prosecute a Windhoek resident who is accused of fatally stabbing his 62-year-old girlfriend 12 times in 2017.
Ausiku bemoans slow decentralisation
NKURENKURU - Kavango West Regional Governor Sirkka Ausiku, wants offices, ministries and agencies to speed up the decentralisation of their functions to regional councils to make service delivery effective.
Learners of shut down Bin Six School get placement
ONGWEDIVA – The majority of the 300 learners who were left without school following the temporal closure of the Bin Six Vocational Training School outside Ongwediva have been placed in schools within and beyond Oshana Region.
Drought: Eengodhi dry as a bone
OMUTHIYA - A catastrophic drought has curved in on Eengodhi Constituency in Oshikoto Region where livestock are dying due to lack of water and sufficient grazing.
A win for Swapo candidate better for Ondangwa: Mbumba
ONDANGWA - Vice-president Nangolo Mbumba, rounding up campaigns for the Ondangwa Urban Constituency by-election last weekend, said Swapo candidate Leonard Negonga is better positioned to
61 000 houses planned for Erongo in next five years
WALVIS BAY – The Erongo Region will embark on an infrastructural and housing project that will see at least 61 000 houses constructed in the region over the next five years.
Limping Air Namibia to undergo surgery… Jooste says airline a national asset
WINDHOEK – Public Enterprises Minister Leon Jooste yesterday said a report prepared by independent consultants on a more suitable business model for the national airline has been completed.
Nearly 37 000 employment contracts terminated in 2017/18
WINDHOEK – Statistics released by the Employment Equity Commission (EEC) indicate that 36 822 employment contracts were terminated during the 2017/18 financial period.
Whites hold 30% managerial positions despite being 0.4% of workforce
WINDHOEK - White employees who comprise only 0.4 percent of the country’s workforce accounted for 29 percent of positions at management levels, according to the 2017/18 Employment Equity Commission (EEC) report tabled in parliament last week.
Two survive bizarre accident
WALVIS BAY - Two drivers survived a bizarre accident yesterday morning when two trucks – one a lighter Kia pick-up - vehicle collided on the bridge between Usakos and Karibib.