Month: September 2019

SWAKOPMUND/OMUTHIYA – Namibia experienced one of the bleakest weekends with at least 59 people being involved in five accidents, killing 23 and injuring about 32 others.

LAKE LYAMBEZI – Over 100 hippos stranded at Lake Lyambezi in Zilitene area in the Katima Mulilo Rural Constituency are dying. 

WINDHOEK - A 26-year-old Namibian woman was arrested in Brazil last month after being allegedly found in possession of cocaine worth N$2 million. 

SWAKOPMUND – Some state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are failing because they are led by board members who possess no integrity nor the skills required to provide leadership that would place such institutions on a growth path, Minister of Public Enterprises Leon Jooste said Friday.

WALVIS BAY - The body of a 52-year-old man was discovered on Friday morning in Kuisebmond, Walvis Bay.

WINDHOEK – Oshikoto Region recorded the highest number of cases of rape involving minors in 2018, with 39 cases reported. 

OMBOTO - Minister of Urban and Rural Development Peya Mushelenga is irked by increasing incidents of elders being robbed of their pension grant by unscrupulous people around them.

WINDHOEK - Inspector General of the Namibian police Sebastian Ndeitunga has revealed that the force is deploying 280 of its members, selected from across the country on a three-month rotation basis, into national parks to assist with anti-poaching operations.

WINDHOEK – Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union (Manwu) General Secretary Justina Jonas-Emvula last week told President Hage Geingob that if nothing radical is done, workers in the construction

WINDHOEK- Edward Ndopu is a young African who is setting the wheels in motion to become the first physically disabled commercial astronaut. “The idea is to broadcast a televised address from a spaceship