Month: August 2021

The Agricultural Bank of Namibia, through its mandate to promote the growth and development of the agriculture sector, has advanced a total of N$3.5 billion to beneficiaries towards the end of the 2020/21 financial year.

Donna Gamatham (20) from Gibeon, through her non-profit organisation, #SheIsNotInvisible, this week handed over 300 re-usable pads to three schools in the Hardap region. The organisation

RUNDU – The long awaited Rundu Intermediate Hospital’s maternity ward is finally operational after keeping the community waiting since 2014. The facility, despite being inaugurated on 20 November last year,

The health ministry yesterday announced that while vaccination sites are inundated with queries and demands from first-timers who request the AstraZeneca vaccine, the recently arrived doses are strictly for the administration of outstanding second jabs.

As Robert Natanael’s life lies smouldering in the ashes where his house with all his family’s worldly belongings used to stand, all he can utter is that parents should never leave their children alone.

Former National Fishing Corporation of Namibia (Fishcor) CEO Mike Nghipunya is in for a long haul after his hit-and-run trial was postponed to next year.

A charcoal producer in the Grootfontein area, who allegedly tried to escape paying his workers by concocting a plan to get them arrested for being illegally in the country and instead got arrested for assault and

KEETMANSHOOP - Nelson Nakale, father of the missing Spencer Mandela Nakale (4) said he remains hopeful that his son will return one day to reunite with his family. This was his stance during an interview with New Era yesterday. 

 A 41-year-old man sentenced to life imprisonment in 2018 by High Court judge Naomi Shivute for murder, is now suing the Namibia Correctional Service (NCS) for alleged torture. Andre Friedel Castro Dausab, who was convicted of killing his former girlfriend by stabbing her 27 times with three knives.

Former youth and sport minister Kazenambo Kazenambo, who passed on Tuesday afternoon, wanted to be buried at Okahandja in the Otjozondjupa region, his cousin Ruben Tjamuaha told New Era yesterday.