Year: 2021

The implementation of amended laws remains Namibia’s Achilles heel.

Education ministry deputy executive director Edda Bohn says all schools in the country should invest a certain amount towards a dignity project, whereby girls benefit from sanitary products. 

The Karanawa no.1 community in Nkurenkuru constituency in Kavango West last week became a beneficiary of a solar-powered borehole with two 10 000 litre water tanks, courtesy of a local company. 

When public enterprises minister Leon Jooste took over as founding minister in that portfolio, a daunting task lay ahead of him in reforming Namibia’s tax dollar-sucking parastatals, where bailouts are the norm, with little to no accountability.

High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg yesterday granted leave to local lawyer Braam Cupido to withdraw as the legal representative of American Marcus Thomas, accused of the assassin-like murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in 2011. 

The future of more than 2 000 workers employed in the local fishing industry continues to hang in the balance as consultations linger on whether to allocate more wet quota to land-based horse mackerel players.  

Proponents of a Basic Income Grant (BIG) have reiterated calls for government to urgently consider rolling out a monthly grant of N$500 to people aged between 19-59 to improve living conditions. 

The trial of prominent Windhoek lawyer Dirk Conradie and his long-time friend Sara Damases was for the umpteenth time postponed yesterday.

Namibia Football Association (NFA) president Ranga Haikali yesterday vowed that he will go to all possible extremes, if necessary, to unshackle the embattled NFA from the unscrupulous influence and continuous interference by the disreputable Progressive Forces group – an infamous cartel of disgruntled former and current clubs executives and chairmen.

Ovalandifi vomomapandaanda modolopa yaShakati ova hala oku pewa onhele yoku landifila yeli kalekelwa ili mokati kodolopa apa pena omangeshefelo mawa opo va shiive oku mona ovalandi vahapu.