WATCH | Birthday wishes for Founding President Sam Nujoma.
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2020-05-132024-04-30Front Page News
Eiseb farmers cross swords over fence
A disgruntled farmer, Robbie Hoveka, residing in the Eiseb Block, a settlement in Omaheke region, has accused another farmer Barney Karuuombe for using his influence and position to break the law and do as he pleased by cutting down a fenced area meant to prevent livestock from straying to other farms in the area.
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2020-05-132024-06-18Crime and Courts
Nurses fined N$2 000 for defying booze ban
Three nurses, who were arrested in the wee hours of Sunday for allegedly consuming alcohol on the premises of the Katima Mulilo state hospital in an apparent breach of the Coronavirus regulations, have each paid a fine of N$2 000. The police said the three nurses – a female and two men – were having fun at the hospital nurses’ home when police caught them. The trio is Mufalo Mwilima (28), John Netha (32) and 28-year-old Ruth Mundia.
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2020-05-132024-04-30Front Page News
Suspects nabbed with illicit liquor
OMUTHIYA - Law enforcement officers in Oshikoto region have been very busy preventing illicit liquor trade during the current state of emergency Covid-19 period.
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2020-05-132024-05-07National
Opinion – Tolerance, productivity and Muslim community of Namibia
The culture around fasting this year, which started on 23 April until 23 May 2020, is curtained by the Covid-19 pandemic. Normally, most Muslims jointly commence the fast at Masjid or home.
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2020-05-132024-05-07National
Opinion – Covid-19 and the deepening cuts of inequality
Efforts to contain the coronavirus have worsened the social and economic divisions that already exist in Namibian society. This is evidenced by the fact that the most vulnerable groups who also happen to be at the bottom of the socio-economic strata are not able to respond to the state of emergency in the same way as the middle and higher-income groups.
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2020-05-132024-05-06Business
Informal sector should resume business – NISO
The Namibia Informal Sector Organisation (NISO) has appealed to the country’s lawmakers to allow the informal economy to resume their activities.
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2020-05-132024-05-06Business
Social distancing defied
Chaotic re-emergence…Social distancing was a near impossible task when the Roads Authority (RA) reopened its Namibia Traffic Information System (NaTIS) offices on Monday when hordes of people flocked to the already long queues.
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2020-05-132024-05-06Business
MTC ‘shocked’ by CRAN’s licence for City of Windhoek
The MTC has labelled as ‘anti-competitive’ the issuing of a telecommunications service licence by the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN). According to MTC’s Tim Ekandjo, this decision by CRAN is both anti-competitive and against the Communications Act and the Competitions Act.
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2020-05-132024-05-07Youth Corner
Unam’s SRC to purchase laptops for underprivileged students
The Office of the SRC at the University of Namibia (Unam) aims to spend N$325 000 to purchase about 100 laptops and a further N$14 800 to buy two desktop computers for two students who are inmates at the Windhoek Correctional facility as part of its Give Laptop campaign.