OSHAKATI – The Oshakati Town Council has announced the launch of the Miss Womalenga Beauty Pageant. The groundbreaking event is set to take place on 31 May as part of the Totem Expo event. The event, which is the first of its kind, aims to celebrate and honour mature Namibian women, giving them a platform...
The National Arts Council of Namibia (NACN) has announced the successful recipients of its 2025 Cycle One grant disbursement. The have awarded a total of N$330 733.34 to 12 artists and cultural practitioners across the country. In a continued celebration of arts as a force for transformation and national development, the NACN’s 2024/25 Grant Period...
Rudolf Geiseb Finance minister Erica Shafudah has proposed the allocation of N$7.2 billion towards the social grants’ management programme. This was contained in a motivation for the budget allocation she presented in the National Assembly last week Tuesday. The programme is among the nine major projects the ministry has lined up for the 2025/2026 financial...
Isabel Bento WALVIS BAY – Walvis Bay mayor Trevino Forbes has blamed the deteriorating situation on political sabotage by officials who deliberately ignore doing their work. He warned that those found wanting would be dealt with decisively. Meanwhile, the Walvis Bay Youth Forum has expressed concern over the current state of service delivery in the...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s inaugural foreign mission to Angola has solidified a commitment to bolster economic cooperation between the two countries, with a strong focus on job-creation and food security. This was announced by presidential press secretary Alfredo Hengari on Saturday, who stated that the president’s visit, concluded on Friday, saw Nandi-Ndaitwah and her Angolan counterpart...
Namibia’s agricultural exports received a boost last Thursday with the signing of a trade agreement between the agriculture ministry and the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China. The agreement paves the way for Namibia to export mutton and chevon (goat meat) to the world’s most populous country. The deal, which sets...
ENGELA – Custodia Shikongo has blamed nurses at Engela District Hospital for negligence, which she said led to the death of her baby during labour. “Nurses should have referred me for a Caesarean section earlier. I am a mother of four. I have never experienced such suffering before,” she said. The distraught mother recounted that...
Prominent Namibian lawyer Dirk Conradie has reignited the black empowerment debate in the Windhoek High Court, where he stands accused of flouting processes for gratification. Conradie, who took High Court judge Thomas Masuku through his journey from humble beginnings to the pinnacle of Namibia’s legal fraternity, said the purpose for meeting the owners of DV8...
Iuze Mukube Two accused persons made a first court appearance in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court last Wednesday facing a charge of fraud related to the N$3.2 million weighbridge scandal. Grant Cloete, an employee of SA Scale Company and his co-accused, Roads Authority (RA) divisional manager Richard Milinga appeared before magistrate Mutafela Olga Muharukua. The two...
A significant number of men than women were involved in road crashes and fatalities in 2025, the Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) Fund said on Wednesday. “Gender data reveals that men are more frequently involved in crashes and lead in fatalities, with 47 men and 19 women having died so far in 2025,” MVA CEO Rosalia...