Lahja Nashuuta The issue of loan sharks is back on the agenda in the National Assembly. It is expected to dominate debates when Parliament resumes this afternoon. The motion, spearheaded by Inna Hengari, an outspoken member of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), calls for an open and urgent national discussion on whether Namibia’s current financial...
SWAKOPMUND – When he is not running one of the country’s busiest local authorities or attending to his family and friends, he is deep into his thoughts, recording and penning. For Swakopmund CEO Alfeus Benjamin, writing is more than just a hobby. It is a personal outlet, a leadership tool and a way of documenting...
A 39-year-old man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly raping a 17-year-old boy on various occasions at his house. He allegedly offered the victim N$200 to silence him after he committed the immoral. The incident first occurred in January and again last week at Ehafo Lya Nelulu village in the Uukwiyuushona constituency in Oshana...
Lahja Nashuuta Namibians will begin receiving electronic identity cards (e-IDs) from July 2026. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security, the new ID system aims to improve identity verification and simplify access to both public and private services. The e-ID is a smart card, similar to a bank card, embedded with...
WALVIS BAY – The fishing industry has been cautioned against employee ‘poaching’ or luring workers employed by another company to come to work for them, as it destabilises the industry. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform Inge Zaamwani says the practice also undermines the government’s employment interventions. Zaamwani cautioned the industry over...
Namibia and Uganda have agreed to cooperate in improving their court systems by utilising traditional methods of resolving disputes, known as alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Uganga’s Chief Justice (CJ) Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo visited Namibia last week tostrengthen and support this effort. On Friday, Namibia’s CJ Peter Shivute and Owiny-Dollo paid a courtesy visit to President...
WALVIS BAY – Namibian correctional facilities have seen a significant decline in terms of cellphone smuggling following the introduction of the Telio Inmate Telephone System. Telio provides inmates with secure communication capabilities while maintaining security and control within correctional facilities. It focuses on one-way calls from inmates to approved contact numbers, recording all calls, and...
Lahja Nashuuta Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security, Lucia Iipumbu, has called for urgent and comprehensive reforms of prison infrastructure across Africa, saying most correctional facilities were designed to serve outdated colonial ideologies focused on punishment rather than rehabilitation. Speaking at the Fifth Workshop on Prison Infrastructure in Africa, currently underway in Windhoek,...
Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen last week sentenced a Khorixas resident convicted of killing his common-law wife and mother of his two children with a pickaxe to an effective jail term of 28 years. Nawaseb was convicted on one count of breaking and entering with intent to murder and murder for breaking into the...
Zebaldt Ngaruka The National Unity Democratic Organisation Youth League said Genocide Remembrance Day would never have been a reality without the tireless contributions of the late Ovaherero paramount chief Kuaima Riruako. He is credited for initiating the parliamentary motion in 2006 that brought the genocide of 1904-1908 into the national discourse. This was through a...