Year: 2021

Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila is not losing any sleep over next year’s Swapo elective congress. She says serving the Namibian people under her current portfolio is the only thing on her mind.

A resident of Windhoek’s Goreangab, who was accused of stabbing his former girlfriend seven times with a knife during 2016, was convicted of murder with direct intent yesterday by High Court Judge Naomi Shivute. 

Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) secretary Ephraim Nekongo has apportioned blame on the Cabinet Committee on Treasury (CCT) for the fall of the struggling national carrier Air Namibia. 

NKURENKURU – Given the rising Covid-19 cases in the two Kavango regions, education authorities have converted hostels and school halls into isolation facilities as more learners at boarding schools contract coronavirus. 

Since the start of the current marketing season in May 2020, more commercial imports were received – and by end of December 2020, Namibia has imported about 29 400 metric tons of cereal. 

Helao Nafidi mayor Darius Shaalukeni has called for public cooperation to overcome challenges facing the town as well as for council to effectively implement its action plan.

Malaria continues to be a concern in the Ohangwena, with the region recording 2 088 cases between January and June last year alone.

A 36-year-old man whom villagers suspected to be a thief was brutally lynched to death at Othingo outside Oshakati yesterday morning. 

Netball Namibia (NN) has confirmed the country’s availability to participate in the upcoming Spar Challenge slated for Cape Town next month, the local netball governing body’s vice-president Rebecca Goagoses shared the news with this publication yesterday.

Brave Warriors legendary striker Rudolf Bester is heaping praise on the country’s U/20 side, the Young Warriors, for putting up a courageous performance at the ongoing African Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Mauritania.