Year: 2021

Minister of Industrialisation and Trade, Lucia Iipumbu, has extended her ministry’s and Namibia’s congratulations to the newly appointed Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-lweala.

As Namibia and the rest of the world emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, it goes without saying that there will be a lasting impact on the global and domestic economies.

Africa being one of the biggest continents that exist on earth houses different landscapes, various mineral resources, wildlife, fishes and different ethnicities. 

The EU-funded P3ICL project has been working on protecting, preserving and promoting indigenous culture and languages since 2018. 

RUNDU – Several stretches of the busy Trans Caprivi Highway between Rundu and Divundu in Kavango East has crumbled into potholes following heavy rain in the area. 

Lower courts are set to hear more civil matters than ever before after the Magistrate’s Court Amendment Bill was tabled in parliament last week.

ONGWEDIVA - A pensioner, who had assaulted and caused the death of his wife over a broken chair in 2018, was on Friday sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in the Oshakati High Court.

ONGWEDIVA - A 51-year-old woman was allegedly raped, assaulted and robbed after she was held at knifepoint by three unknown men on Friday at Onelago B outside Ongwediva.

A grade 8 learner from Uukumwe Secondary School in Oshivelo drowned in a river on the outskirts of the settlement where she was swimming with three friends last weekend. 

OMUTHIYA – Oshikoto education director Aletta Eises has urged learners in the region to develop a good reading culture to improve their grammar.