Year: 2021

The City of Windhoek Council intends to make applicants for executive and strategic positions participate in public presentations to communicate their vision and capabilities.

Two South African advocates, who admitted guilt and were consequently convicted of transgressing Namibian immigration laws in November 2019 while representing the Fishrot accused, are arguing that the Namibian authorities misinterpreted their own laws.

Journalism will not die, it is the oxygen of democracy, but will continue to be disrupted, Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) associate professor Admire Mare has opined.

Higher education minister Itah Kandjii-Murangi said Namibia has upheld media freedom to ensure the safety of journalists, hence so far, no journalist has been threatened, killed or tortured for doing their work in Namibia.

In a bizarre turn of events, the police’s crime investigations unit commander in Aus, Warrant Officer Jesaja Ngalandji, was arrested earlier this week on charges of stock theft, using a police motor-vehicle without consent, malicious damage to property and defeating the ends of justice.

As the world prepares to celebrate International Workers’ Day tomorrow, labour rights experts have called on workers across the country to advocate for unity of purpose.

Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula has assured citizens that no one will be refused Covid-19 vaccine jabs.

Okaku councillor Hannu Gerson Kapenda was granted bail of N$10 000 in the Oshakati Magistrate’s Court after appearing for culpable homicide, reckless and negligent driving. 

A Walvis Bay man, convicted of murder with direct intent for slitting the throat of his live-in girlfriend with a kitchen knife, was yesterday sentenced to an effective 30 years behind bars.

Agriculture minister Calle Schlettwein this week again explained the two farms offered to the State by Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila and her husband Onesmus Amadhila.