Year: 2021

WALVIS BAY – The director of education in Erongo, Erenfriede Stephanus, says they have managed to construct 36 classrooms in the region last year and will build a further 16 in 2021.

KATIMA MULILO - After being dormant for about two years, the Kalimbeza rice project in the Zambezi region is preparing for the harvest of rice produced at the green scheme. 

Government will no longer cough up for the educational allowances for children or dependents of Namibian diplomats effective 1 April 2021.

WALVIS BAY - Authorities have questioned the cause of a second fire at the Twaloloka informal settlement that destroyed over 27 homes yesterday. 

As the curtain came down on Donald Trump’s tumultuous presidency yesterday, local commentators agreed that Africa, in particular Namibia, can look forward to better relations with the United States under new leader Joe Biden.

Workers at the retail chain stores of Shoprite, Checkers and Usave have received overwhelming support from government, political parties as well as labour unions as nearly 2 000 workers continue with strike action over better pay. 

KAGUNI – An 80-year-old pensioner has died after she was hacked with an axe allegedly by her 28-year-old grandson at Kaguni village in Kavango West on Tuesday evening. 

ONGWEDIVA - The man who stabbed to death his final year girlfriend for deleting his ex-girlfriend’s photos from his cell phone at Ongwediva was sentenced to 30-years imprisonment by the Oshakati High Court on Tuesday.

Higher education minister Itah Kandjii-Murangi has appointed a seven-member interim council for the Namibia Qualifications Authority (NQA) effective 5 December 2020.

Women living in Walvis Bay’s Otweya temporary shelter maintained they live in constant fear of robbers and sexual predators lurking around the area.