Year: 2022

Overcrowded dormitories, mal- and non-functioning ablution facilities and water scarcity are some major issues affecting operations at community hostels in the Omaheke region. 

Swapo Party Youth League secretary and member of parliament Ephraim Nekongo is disappointed at the state of affairs at the dilapidated Mashare Agricultural Development Institute in the Kavango East region, where the infrastructure is slowly diminishing due to a lack of maintenance.

Three judges of the Namibia Supreme Court on Friday declared the controversial Regulation 19 instituted by President Hage Geingob during the national lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic as unconstitutional.

Incumbent Swapo vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will have to defend her position against Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, who will be contesting for power in the ruling party for the first time.  

Traditional authorities and leaders have a duty to stop the corrupt practice of illegal fencing off of communal land and allocation of communal lands for self-gratification.

​​​​​​​Evidence is beginning to surface that the scheme orchestrated by the Katutura Central constituency councillor Vezemba Rodman Katjaimo to ship Namibians to Europe was never intended for the Commonwealth Games but instead to seek asylum.

Former Ohangwena governor Usko Nghaamwa has paid glowing tribute to businessman and prominent farmer Ismael Shailemo, who passed on yesterday, aged 76. 

Fishing industry players and stakeholders have condemned the alleged human trafficking of the 60 fishers that were rescued last week Monday.

Ten people have been killed in road-related accidents, while a substantial 117 have been injured between 28 August and 4 September, official figures released this week have
shown. 

Falling international oil prices coupled with the strengthening of the Namibia dollar against the United States dollar are two of the main factors that enabled the energy ministry to reduce local fuel prices for September.