Year: 2021

Finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi has welcomed a decision by the European Union to delist Namibia as one of the countries regarded as tax havens due to lax practices and regulations on tax governance. 

KEETMANSHOOP – The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) emerged as the biggest winner in Friday’s poll rerun after securing the majority seats on the Stampriet and Koës local authorities, while the party also snatched the Mariental Rural constituency away from Swapo. 

The Windhoek High Court on Friday placed embattled national airline, Air Namibia, under provisional liquidation. 

The hopes of former fisheries minister Bernhard Esau and his son-in-law Tamson Hatuikulipi to be released on bail were squashed on Friday when High Court judges of appeal dismissed their application. 

The Grootfontein municipality last week allocated 715 plots to ultra-low and low-income earners. 

Public enterprises minister Leon Jooste says his ministry is at an advanced stage of developing an integrated electronic performance monitoring and evaluation system to track and evaluate the work of state-owned enterprises. 

Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) parliamentarian Johannes Martin has said the Swapo-led government has run out of ideas in fixing the country’s education system, which according to him has been in a bad state for years.

 A 12-month-old toddler drowned in a bucket of water while her mother was allegedly taking a bath on Friday afternoon at Omaambo village in the Elim constituency of Omusati.

The international relations ministry on Friday bade farewell to special advisor on foreign affairs and renowned diplomat Tuliameni Kalomoh, who retired from that role.

Information minister Peya Mushelenga last week announced that Cabinet had approved the allocation of N$10 million from the National Emergency Disaster Fund for expenditure request arising from disaster situations due to excessive rainfall.