Year: 2021

The residents of Elamba informal settlement in Eenhana are up in arms after the council cut off their water connection last week Thursday due to non-payment. 

WALVIS BAY – Walvis Bay backyard squatters have appealed to the local authority and government to come up with a workable solution to address the housing issue.

The chairperson of the Omusati Regional Council, Andreas Shintama, has urged technocrats and elected officials to speedily implement projects within the region. 

Political commentators have called on lawmakers to close potential loopholes within the legal framework that allows for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to make donations to political parties. 

Some grieving families losing loved ones to the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic have been left with little option but to break an old taboo by opting to cremate the remains of their departed. 

Even though Shoprite Namibia has withdrawn its urgent application against the Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) and its members who were on strike over better pay, the union has proceeded with an application to have the company and its directors convicted of contempt of court. 

WALVIS BAY - Fisheries minister Albert Kawana says allegations his ministry favoured the Tunacor group in the allocation of fishing quotas is completely misleading. 

Landless People’s Movement (LPM) parliamentarian Henny Seibeb has called for the renaming of Neckartal Dam outside Keetmanshoop to the revered anti-colonial resistance leader Kaptein Hendrik Witbooi. 

The Kunene Transboundary Water Supply Project between Namibia and Angola, which was inaugurated in 2018 to address distribution to inhabitants along the common border, has resulted in reduced water system losses in the water transfer from Angola into Namibia. 

The Namibian authorities have been urged to activate the country’s national contingency plan which spells out how to deal with natural disasters such as flooding.