Year: 2021

KATIMA MULILO – Operations at the Sibbinda sub-khuta of the Mafwe Traditional Authority in the Zambezi region remains halted due to a power struggle over who should be the district induna. 

Chairman of the National Fishing Corporation’s temporary board has called on authorities to unfreeze the corporation’s accounts, saying these funds are in no way linked to the ongoing Fishrot investigation. 

The Presidency has dismissed allegations as unfounded that Founding President Sam Nujoma is hospitalised and in bad health.

Ombudsman John Walters says he has advised Windhoek lawyer Marèn de Klerk, one of the alleged key figures in the ongoing Fishrot corruption case, to approach the courts and exercise his rights for protection. 

ONGOMBO WEST - The first farm to be expropriated in Namibia, Ongombo West, has been turned into a white elephant as resettled farmers struggle to maintain the property and put it to good use. 

The Association of Local Authorities in Namibia (Alan) president Katrina Shimbulu has vehemently defended a proposal to government to consider approving a 50% pay hike for local authority councillors as part of their monthly allowances. 

Local lawyer Trevor Brockerhoff has succeeded to overturn a conviction of stock theft in the lower court into a dismissal of the charge in the High Court on appeal.

To curtail serious financial constraints due to the economic downturn experienced, the education ministry has announced the suspension of filling non-teaching vacancies during the remaining 2020/21 financial year as well as 2021/22 period until further notice.

Young activists under the banner of the #ShutItAllDown movement have expressed joy at winning the Silencing Gender-Based Violence Award, which is an initiative of the African Union youth envoy’s office. 

SWAKOPMUND – Regional and local authority councillors should constantly remind themselves that they are servants and not the masters of the electorate.