National Assembly secretary Lydia Kandetu says Parliament is not liable to backpay members who joined the House two years later, while their seats were occupied by fellow party members. She was responding to a fresh bid by Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) parliamentarians who were sworn-in in 2022. Since their swearing-in, they have been demanding backpay...
BRAVO – Jafet Tame Langman, the headman of Bravo village in Kavango West, says his community yearns for the development promised to them by politicians over the years. He said with a new president set to take the country’s reins on 21 March 2025 and an executive of their own, the time to deliver is...
The Windhoek City Council on Tuesday failed, for the second time, to elect political office bearers due to a lack of quorum. The elections were postponed to Tuesday morning after councillors walked out of a meeting chaired by Magistrate Immanuel Udjombala on Monday afternoon. The walkout followed Udjombala’s refusal to grant the councillors a recess....
Michael Mutonga Liswaniso KATIMA MULILO – Well-known Zambezi resident and retired police commissioner, Bolen Sankwasa is hopeful that more rains will fall in the region in the upcoming weeks and enable communal farmers like him to cultivate the land. Zambezi and other parts of Namibia are drought stricken – a situation that forced President Nangolo...
KEETMANSHOOP – The Namibian Police recorded 4 814 gender-based violence (GBV) cases countrywide during the 2023/24 financial year, Minister of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, Doreen Sioka, has said. In a statement read on her behalf at the launch of the 16 Days of Activism against GBV in the //Kharas region on Monday,...
RUNDU – The five rape-accused men, who were initially denied bail in November for allegedly raping minor girls at the Kavango East region’s Nyangana Catholic Mission’s hostel, were recently granted bail of N$3000 each. The accused lived at Nyangana Mission, and had access to the female learners housed at the mission’s hostel. The accused are...
OSHAKATI – The Bank of Namibia (BoN) handed over gym equipment worth over N$300 000 to the Namibian Police Force (NamPol) in the Oshana region on Monday.Handing over the donation at Oshakati, BoN’s director of currency management and banking operations Sencia Kaizemi-Rukata said the men and women in uniform are the backbone of the society...
OTJIWARONGO – The National African Students Association (NASA) held a conference at Otjiwarongo over the weekend to elect new leadership.In an interview with Nampa on Monday, NASA founding member Paulus Vihemba said 80 students from different universities across the country attended the conference. They elected Muzani Muzani from the University of Namibia (Unam) Rundu campus...
OSHAKATI – A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly raping a seven-year-old boy in the Omusati region. The Namibian Police’s regional commander for Omusati, Commissioner Ismael Basson, said the incident allegedly occurred at Onahende village in the Outapi constituency.“The suspect, who is a domestic worker, reportedly had sexual intercourse with the minor boy in...
KATIMA MULILO – The Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare has kicked off the registration and re-registration of the Conditional Basic Income Grant (CBIG) at Katima Mulilo, in the Zambezi region. The exercise that aims to transition from the Food Bank programme to a direct monthly cash transfer of N.dollars 600 to...