Year: 2021

Digital platforms have given a lead to innovative reporting practices that enable different forms of communication and greater global reach, and Namibia is no exception.

Are our prisons serving their purpose of being rehabilitations and correctional facilities, or do they produce even more hard core criminals?

My piece that was published in the New Era newspaper of 24 September 2021 under the above heading has provoked a lot of comments from different people.

Back in the days, our forefathers never attended modern schools.

A man from Ariamsvlei in the Karasburg district, who allegedly poured petrol on the body of his girlfriend and mother of his 13-month-old baby girl, made his second appearance in the Windhoek High Court last week before Judge Christie Liebenberg.

Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) parliamentary chief whip Vipua Muharukua has strongly condemned an alleged assassination attempt on leading Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. 

It was a second no-show for lawyer Titus Mbaeva last week at the pretrial court appearance of Jeremia van Wyk, who confessed under oath to abducting and sexually violating a minor in 2019.

The Northern Electricity Distributor (Nored) and MTC have signed an agreement which will see the two entities collaborate in digitalising the electricity industry. 

Agricultural minister Calle Schlettwein has requested for 100% land tax relief for the financial year 2019/2020 to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 on the agricultural sector.

A new maternal shelter has been opened at Odibo in the Ohangwena region by Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.