BERLIN – Displaying one of her company’s hot plates proudly labelled “Made in Germany”, Sigrid Klenk concedes that maintaining production at home could become harder due in part to US tariffs. Continuing to make goods in Germany “is becoming less and less simple,” Klenk, boss of the small firm Rommelsbacher, said at the IFA consumer...
LONDON – Rush-hour commuters faced chaos yesterday as staff on the London Underground train network staged a five-day strike, shutting stations and forcing people to work from home or use alternative modes of transport. Thousands queued to try and get on crammed buses while others reluctantly walked or cycled.Transport for London (TfL), which manages the...
Rudolf Gaiseb The Minister of Education, Arts and Culture, Sanet Steenkamp, has given an assurance to members of the parliament that cases of food poisoning will not be repeated in government schools. She was speaking in the National Assembly last week following the poisoning incident at Maria Mwengere Senior Secondary School hostel in Kavango East,...
Rudolf Gaiseb Landless People’s Movement (LPM) parliamentarian Utaara Mootu says land restoration should be approached as a political and social imperative rather than a purely technical exercise. She was speaking at the Global Changemaker Academy for Parliamentarians (G-CAP) in Bonn, Germany, held from 25-29 August, where she underscored the need for ecosystem management that is...
Kaino Sheehama Opuwo Rural – The newly constructed Otjinanua Primary School in Opuwo Rural Constituency was officially handed over to the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture last week. The facilities, established under the Ondao education programme, were funded by Georg and Monika Hahn through “Projekt Kaokoland e.V.” in partnership with Gabathuler Building Construction. The...
Rudolf Gaiseb Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) deputy leader Kalimbo Iipumbu has urged the Ministry of Health and Social Services to urgently address long queues and delays at public hospitals and clinics. Speaking in the National Assembly last Thursday, Iipumbu expressed concern over reports that more than 1 000 patients were forced to wait up...
MAPUTO – Insurgents linked to the Islamic State group attacked a key Mozambique port town near a major international gas hub, clashing with troops and beheading at least two civilians, locals reported yesterday. The raid on Mocimboa da Praia, around 80 kilometres south of a multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas project operated by French energy giant...
Rudolf Gaiseb The leader of the National Democratic Party and headman of Queensland village in Zambezi region, Martin Lukato, has appealed to the government to act on the water shortage his village currently faces. Lukato told New Era last week the situation was dire and the people were crying day and night because of thirst....
Hilma Nalupe With the sting their defeat by Malawi still fresh, Namibia’s national football team, the Brave Warriors, are determined to bounce back stronger against São Tomé and Príncipe at the Obed Itani Chilume Stadium in Francistown, Botswana, at 15h00 today. Friday’s 2-1 loss to Malawi was a setback for Namibia’s Fifa World Cup qualifiers,...
SEOUL – South Korea’s foreign minister departed for Washington yesterday for further negotiations following the detention of hundreds of South Koreans in an immigration raid. US immigration officials arrested some 475 individuals, including South Korean workers, during the raid Thursday at a Hyundai-LG battery plant being built in the southern state of Georgia. Officials in...