A storm is brewing at the Windhoek Correctional Facility as it faces both critical staff shortages and overcrowding pressures that threaten safety and rehabilitation efforts. The Windhoek Correctional Facility, designed to hold 174 inmates, is battling severe staff shortages and overcrowding, with 682 posts currently vacant and several housing units operating above capacity. This was revealed...
History was made on Sunday as Namibia’s First Gentleman Epafras Ndenga Ndaitwah was officially welcomed into the Organisation of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD.) He became one of the few male spouses to join the continental body. Ndaitwah was admitted during the 30th Ordinary General Assembly of OAFLAD held on Sunday in Addis Ababa,...
!Hūb di ǁûs, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwahs ge !hūsâuǁkhāsiba ǁî-i a ǂguro xū Namibiab !auga!hūsi !gaeǁares xoaǁguib !nâ nî !hūǂnûǁkhaebadi ǀkha hâ-i ase ge aimâi. ǁîs ge ǀgonǀgon!gaoa !khais ge, nēsisa xun !hūǂnûkhaebade xu mûmûsa tsî ǀnōhe ǁkhā !gâi!gâna !hūb di khoen !aroma ra !âubasens. ǂOa ge wekheb di Denstaxtsēs ais ge ǀAsa kurib di ǂHanusi ǀhaos...
Justice and labour minister Fillemon Wise Immanuel yesterday spent more than N$22 000 from his pocket to treat more than 100 ministry members to a kapana lunch in Katutura, following their opening annual engagement. At the heart of choosing the kapana in Single Quarters was to support informal traders and promote people-centred leadership. “It shouldn’t...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called for women leaders in Africa to move beyond symbolism and deliver real peace, security and legal protection for the most vulnerable across the continent. Speaking at a high-level Presidential Fireside Conversation on the margins of the African Union Summit on Friday, Nandi-Ndaitwah said Africa’s governance systems must fully integrate women...
At a time when the lines between professionalism and press freedom, journalism and activism, media and State protocol, and etiquette and anarchy are increasingly becoming blurred and contentious, experts have called for a structured and respectful working relationship. This is particularly between journalists and security authorities, especially when covering the President and other high-level national...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called on African leaders to close ranks, defend multilateralism and assert the continent’s collective interests in a rapidly fragmenting global order. She made the appeal during her maiden address to the African Union Assembly in Addis Ababa on Saturday at the 39th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly for newly elected...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has thanked German goodwill ambassador Wolfgang Fiedler for his extraordinary contribution of nearly N$65 million to Namibian schools over the past 48 years. Fiedler and his wife, Eva, have supported more than 100 schools across the country, providing classrooms, hostels, textbooks, uniforms and learning materials with a special focus on learners with...
Police supremo Joseph Shikongo has appealed to his officers to focus on their duties instead of wasting their hard-earned money on Valentine’s Day tomorrow. Leading from the front, Shikongo will not expend any funds on Valentine’s Day. This, he said, is because to him, the day is of no significance. He was speaking during a...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has placed economic diplomacy at the centre of Namibia’s foreign policy. She declared that international relations must now deliver “tangible and measurable benefits” for the country’s people. Speaking at State House on Tuesday during the official New Year’s greeting ceremony for the Diplomatic Corps, the President said Namibia enters 2026 with “clarity...