MARIENTAL – NamWater last week announced the resumption of irrigation water supply from the Hardap Dam. The flow resumes today. NamWater, in a media statement on Wednesday, said the decision was approved by water minister Calle Schlettwein, in support of national priorities to promote agricultural productivity and economic stability in the region. The Hardap Irrigation...
The ministry of labour has approved the phased implementation of a national minimum wage for security guards. The decision, hailed as a win for thousands of underpaid workers, was announced last Thursday by the Namibia Security Labour Forum (NSLF) at a press briefing in Windhoek. Effective 1 January 2025, security personnel will receive N$13.50 per...
OSHAKATI – The police in the Omusati region are investigating a case of fraud after an unknown individual allegedly stole N$1.1 million from a 60-year-old woman’s bank account last week. The Namibian Police Force’s regional commander for Omusati, commissioner Ismael Basson, said the incident occurred at an unknown time between Wednesday and Friday. The money...
KATIMA MULILO – Historian and teacher Francis Mabuku Sinvula, who died last Thursday at the age of 67, has been laid to rest at his home village of Ikumwe in the Katima Mulilo Rural constituency. Sinvula, who was also known as ‘Ba Mars’, was a well-known public figure. At the funeral, speaker after speaker praised...
Lylie Joel NKURENKURU – More than 150 women from Bunya village and surrounding areas in the Kavango West have had the Copper Intrauterine Contraceptive Device (IUCD) inserted since its introduction at the Osaat clinic in November 2024. The non-hormona l contraceptive offers women protection against falling pregnant for up to 10 years. This milestone was...
The Ministry of Education’s executive director Sanet Steenkamp has comforted learners who performed poorly, saying no examination results could ever supersede their value, and what they can accomplish. The Ministry last week released the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary and Advanced Subsidiary Level Examination results, which states that of the 40 757 candidates who sat...
OUTJO – Kunene education director Sophia Ferdrieck says hostels should use hostel development fees, payable by the boarders, for maintenance and to improve living conditions. She was responding to media queries regarding the dilapidated conditions at the Eddie Bowe hostel in Khorixas. The hostel reportedly faces a shortage of beds, lockers, mattresses, and has exposed...
NIAMEY – A major journalist in Niger was in custody on Saturday, an association said, a day after the private TV channel he runs was suspended following a report critical of the military-led regime. Seyni Amadou, editor-in-chief of Canal 3 TV, has been arrested, said CAP-Medias-Niger, which represents media workers in the country. On Friday,...
PORT LOUIS – A prospective deal on returning the Chagos islands to Mauritius will ensure the United States maintains its strategic military base on the Indian Ocean archipelago, Mauritius’s prime minister said yesterday. “There is a disinformation campaign in the United States claiming that we are close to China, that we are going to let...
JERUSALEM – Israel yesterday said a truce with Hamas began in Gaza at 0915 GMT, nearly three hours after initially scheduled, following a last-minute delay on the orders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the delay, Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed eight people. A statement from Netanyahu’s office, issued less than an...