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Shaka Khoza’s apology for explicit footage
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Shaka Khoza’s apology for explicit footage

The Queen’s actor Sthembiso Khoza who plays the role of Shaka Khoza is the top trending this week after a video of him appearing at a supposed sex party emerged on social media with women dancing bare-chested and twerking naked. Khoza took it to social media to render an apology for the inappropriate footage, which...

The fairy godmother of education in Namibia
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The fairy godmother of education in Namibia

Mononymously known as ED (executive director), Sanet Lentrud Steenkamp (48), also better known as Tahnee among Karasburgers realised the passion for education while at university when she gave birth to her daughter Janine. “When I fell pregnant with my daughter, it was during my first year of university, that spurred me on to become a...

Nanso donates books to Havana Project School
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Nanso donates books to Havana Project School

The Namibian National Students’ Organisation (Nanso) has donated about 200 hundred books to the Havana Project Secondary School in the capital to instil the reading culture and enhance learners’ vocabulary. The school, situated in the Havana informal settlement, is operated in military tents, two containers: one is used as an office and the other as...

Pro-choice activists fight back
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Pro-choice activists fight back

Proponents for the legalisation of safe abortion rallied in the capital on Saturday, with about 200 demonstrators marching from Katutura state hospital to Zoo Park in the CBD.  Chanting ‘legalise abortion now’, ‘reproductive justice now’, “get your policies off my ovaries, the marchers were joined by among others revered medical doctor Helena Ndume who also...

The ignominy entanglement of the Smiths
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The ignominy entanglement of the Smiths

The Top trending story this week is about Jada Pinkett-Smith who inveterated that she was involved in a romantic relationship with singer and songwriter August Alsina after seeing that she got into a particular type of entanglement. The clip received mixed reactions with some saying entanglement is cheating for the rich and others saying the...

The football coach who wanted to be a pastor 
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The football coach who wanted to be a pastor 

What you might not know about him is he loves music more than football. We are talking about a man and son of the soil who has been at the forefront of sports in Namibia for four decades. Ricardo Giovanni Mannetti (45), aka Bucksy said his siblings are to be blamed for this as they...

Haininga makes it easy for voyagers by travel blogging
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Haininga makes it easy for voyagers by travel blogging

Blogger Ndapanda Haininga said she always sought to share her beautiful country with the rest of the world through her writing but had little information about the destinations; hence, she decided on promoting Namibia through her blog.Haininga, a weekly contributor to this publication’s entertainment page through her travel guide, was nominated for best blogger at...

Investing in the skills and potential of young people
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Investing in the skills and potential of young people

Sem Mandela Uutoni (26) has been recognised with the highest accolade a young person can achieve for social action or humanitarian efforts – The Diana Award.  “The Diana Award Charity is the only charity set up in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales and her belief that young people have the power to change the...

Hilaria: Okahandja’s leading driving instructor
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Hilaria: Okahandja’s leading driving instructor

A female driving instructor and owner of Hilaria Driving School, Hilaria Erastus (38) has said fellow women should not be scared of joining the industry and encouraged those who want to venture in such industries to do so by all means. “If you want to go into transportation or instructing people how to drive, don’t...