Year: 2021

Namibia will move to lift the ban on the movement of cattle if no further cases of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) are detected until 20 April this year.

Despite being invited in writing for a second time to attend a meeting to nominate and elect members of the //Kharas Regional Council management committee, three Swapo councillors opted to remain absent, in the process waving their democratic right for nomination. 

The Ministry of Urban and Rural Development said it will look this month into a proposal by an umbrella body representing local authority councillors, which is seeking a pay, increase for the part-time politicians. 

The University of Namibia (Unam) has called on students to submit all outstanding documents and pay fees in order for them to graduate this Friday.

Two damning petitions within a span of ten days alluding to serious governance deficiencies at the National Housing Enterprise, that purportedly emanated from the institution’s management, have called into question the future of the state-owned housing provider. 

Police officers allegedly caught former magistrate and rape accused Jaco Kennedy in a compromising situation performing a “forceful” sex act with a woman who has accused him of rape, the Windhoek High Court heard on Friday.

Swapo President Hage Geingob at the weekend accused young people of driving the tribalism agenda, a worrisome trend that he said will tear the country apart. 

President Hage Geingob was welcomed with a seat at the Holy Fire on Friday when he arrived at the traditional homestead of Namibia’s national leader late Chief Hosea Kutako, who passed away in 1970.

Former National Council member and Okahandja constituency councillor Steve Biko Booys, who is accused of rape, will hear tomorrow whether or not his bail application was successful. 

Land reform minister Calle Schlettwein said two farms offered to the State by Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila and her husband Onesmus Amadhila were deemed suitable for resettlement purposes, saying the couple did not receive preferential treatment from government.