Taimi Haihambo Opolifi moshitukulwa shaMusati oya lopota oshiningwanima shonghendabala yedipao nelikufomwenyo omo omulumenhu weedula inadi shivika eli kufa omwenyo konima yoku Yasha noku ehameka omukainhu waye womido 49. Oshiningwanima eshi eshi osha ningwa momukunda Okagongo-kaludhi moshitukulwa shaShikuku. Otaku hokololwa omulumenhu wedina Victor Shaninga, eli yasha nondjebo momutwe nokufya, konima eshi a yasha mombuda nokumonifa oshiponga...
Zebaldt Ngaruka Opuwo Youth Choir from Kunene region will represent Namibia at the Africa Asia Pacific Choir Games which kicked off on Saturday and will end on 5 October in the Mauritius capital, Port Luis. The Games incorporate the Grand Prix of Nations Mauritius 2025, and offers the Open Competition, the Champions Competition, and the...
Lahja Nashuuta The Namibia Agronomic Board (NAB) has unveiled a N$250 million Crop Value Chain Development Strategy for 2025-2030, with potato production singled out as a strategic priority. Of this, N$27.5 million will be invested in the Potato Value Chain Development Scheme over the next five years. The NAB will provide a 50% subsidy, while...
TEHRAN – Iran yesterday condemned as “unjustifiable” the reinstatement of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear programme, after the collapse of talks with Western powers and Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear sites.The measures, which bar dealings linked to the Islamic republic’s nuclear and ballistic missile activities, took effect overnight after Western powers triggered...
MUMBAI – A stampede that killed dozens at a south India political rally happened after a crowd of thousands waited hours in baking heat without sufficient safeguards, officials and witnesses said yesterday.Some 27 000 people thronged a public road in Tamil Nadu state in hopes of seeing popular actor-turned-politician Vijay on Saturday, but panic broke...
Iuze Mukube A sledgehammer effect slammed the accused in the Namcor corruption case in their bail request on Friday. This followed the firm refusal by Magistrate Linus Samunzala to release the six applicants in the Namcor fraud case, on bail leaving them to continue their fight in the case from behind bars. The applicants were...
COLOMBO – A Buddhist monk injured in a cable car crash in Sri Lanka died yesterday, raising the death toll to eight in the worst accident of its kind, police said.Seven monks, including three foreigners, were killed instantly when their cabin plunged down the mountainside near a forest monastery in the northwestern Kurunegala district on...
Rudolf Gaiseb The government said further assessments will be made on the Chobe River site to determine necessary interventions to curb wildlife from drowning. The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism stated that three such occurrences have unfolded in the past five years, with the most recent happening last week. “It is not the government’s...
Hesron Kapanga Deputy Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture (MEIYSAC) Dinno Ballotti has called on corporates and the private sector to form a consortium to help fund football in Namibia. He made the appeal in Parliament on Thursday on behalf of education minister Sanet Steenkamp. This follows high-level consultations involving Prime Minister...
Hesron Kapanga Paralympic sprinter Ananias Shikongo and his guide Sem Shimanda qualified for the semifinals of the men’s T11 400 metres (m) after finishing second in heat one at the New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships. Shikongo and seven other Namibian athletes are competing in the 2025 International Paralympic Committee’s World Para Athletics Championships...