Year: 2021

Minister of labour Utoni Nujoma has expressed deep sadness over the passing of prominent businessman and farmer Elliot Hiskia, who died last week Friday aged 74. He died in Windhoek due to Covid-19 complications.  

US ambassador to Namibia Lisa Johnson this week paid a farewell call to President Hage Geingob at State House. 

The funeral costs for Covid-19 victims is plunging grieving families further into despair as they struggle to give their loved ones dignified burials while raising funds as quickly as possible to bury their dead within the stipulated time. 

The Ondonga Traditional Authority (OTA) has set up a committee to look into issues of sand mining that have been a burning issue in Oshikoto, especially in the Oniipa area. 

Kavango East residents have been encouraged to get vaccinated, as only 1% of the region’s population have been inoculated against Covid-19 so far.

As the death toll from Covid-19 hits private homes and institutions, social distancing rules mean patients are denied visitors in their final hours and families cannot congregate in person at funerals and memorials to bury their dead and mourn.

The Namibian Public Workers’ Union (Napwu) has asked the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) for the exact date when it will operationalise the employment of all contract employees into permanent positions as agreed upon between the two parties.

The Ovambanderu community has lost an important pillar of strength and voice of wisdom, President Hage Geingob said yesterday, while reacting to the passing of the traditional authority’s chief Kilus Munyuku III Nguvauva. 

Former Namibian Defence Force chief John Sinvula Mutwa was yesterday laid to rest at Mahundu village in the Katima Mulilo Rural constituency. 

The Tsumeb municipality is reeling, following the death of the town’s management committee chairperson, Ingenecia David, who died on Wednesday, following a short illness related to Covid-19.