Year: 2021

A Windhoek resident arrested for allegedly hitting a 21-year-old man with a brick in Okahandja Park last Thursday was denied bail earlier this week.

A group of Rössing mine workers held a peaceful demonstration outside the labour commissioner’s office in Swakopmund on Monday where an arbitration hearing of their former colleagues who were sacked in September last year took place on the same day. 

Namibia preferred candidate for the director general post of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has prevailed to take charge of the Switzerland-based institution.

Disgruntled workers at the country’s national public broadcaster, NBC, have written an open letter to the government urging the leadership to help save the corporation from alleged maladministration, nepotism and corruption.

Puma Energy Namibia and the Namibia Bus and Taxi Association are embroiled in a fight over a piece of land on which both parties have been operating for years.

ONGWEDIVA – A 23-year-old man was allegedly stabbed and hacked to death with a panga by a couple at Oshuunga village in Oshana region on Tuesday evening.

The Cabinet’s decision to voluntarily liquidate Air Namibia has led to a massive nationwide demonstration, with at least two union umbrella bodies staging protest marches. 

Political analysts have termed the nationwide protests by the Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL), the country’s largest trade union, the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) and the Trade Union Congress of Namibia (Tucna) against Air Namibia’s liquidation as “too little, too late”. 

A medical doctor who conducted the autopsy on former Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) executive director Eckhardt Mueller revealed yesterday he was shot eight times, including twice in the head and three gunshots to the chest area.

A South African-born man, who was convicted of raping two under-aged girls and human trafficking charges, yesterday told Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula he is “sorry for what he has done”.