Kaviveterue Virere Deadly stabbing In Okahandja Park, Ernesto Lucas Ngongo Ndara (19), was fatally stabbed on Saturday morning. The tragedy unfolded when he and a friend went to fetch water from a communal tap – an ordinary task that turned violent after an argument broke out with two men. Police accounts state that the suspect...
JOHANNESBURG – South African prosecutors announced on Wednesday their plans to reopen an inquest into the death of prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, nearly 50 years after he died while in police custody. Biko, founder of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, died in a prison cell in 1977, aged just 30, after being beaten into...
JOHANNESBURG – A South African court on Friday rejected an attempt to block the release of a Netflix documentary about a man convicted of rape and murder who faked his death to escape prison. Thabo Bester gained global notoriety in 2023 after his arrest in Tanzania, a year after he had escaped from a private...
BIZERTE (Tunisia) – A flotilla bound for Gaza carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists set sail yesterday from Tunisia after repeated delays, aiming to break Israel’s blockade and deliver aid to the Palestinian territory. “The fleet that departed Barcelona is already at sea, and the Tunisian boats are now setting sail in stages,” the Global Sumud...
GABORONE – A United Nations human rights expert on Friday urged the Botswana government to grant constitutional recognition and stronger protections to indigenous communities, citing longstanding discrimination against the San people. The San are hunter-gatherers who were evicted from their ancestral land in the Kalahari, where there are diamond deposits. They have lived in southern...
Zebaldt Ngaruka Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs Frans Kapofi praised the high level of competition and camaraderie at the recently concluded Namibia Defence Force’s (NDF) 10th annual sports games held at Gobabis’s Legare Sports Complex in the Omaheke region. The event concluded with a vibrant awards ceremony, where teams and individual athletes from various...
Auleria Wakudumo ONDANGWA – Minista womayambulepo omikunda needoolopa James Sankwasa okwa kunghilila elelo lodoolopa yaNdangwa opo li xulife po okukala itali landula omilandu odo da tulwa po kouministeli nokepangelo. Eshi Sankwasa okwe shi holola eshi vati elelo lodoolopa yaNdangwa la tula po kulo vene ondjabi yomukulunhuwiliki wavo Ismael Namgongo. Minista okwa ti eshi osha ningwa...
Lahja Nashuuta Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare has called for urgent reforms in Namibia’s public service, warning that inefficiency, delays and bureaucratic bottlenecks will no longer be tolerated. Speaking at the launch of the Office of the Prime Minister’s (OPM) five-year strategic plan in Windhoek last week, Ngurare said too many government systems are plagued by...
Iuze Mukube Muyahi wasikiliti sa Zambezi, Sinvula Mwilima (31), yana lengilwe lilimo zelobañwi hala mulatu wakuzamaisa limbule ze silelelizwe, ufitisize liñolo la kuli taba yahae italimwe sinca mwa Khuta Yepahami. Mwilima nafumanwi mulatu wakubata kulekisa manaka atou amabeli abuima bobulikana 6.55kg ateko yelikana N$5 989. Nafumwi mulatu hape kakuluwa lilama za lifolofolo zanaheñi zesilelelizwe hala Mulao...
Ras Hans Sheehama used to call me “the philosopher.” But as I sit down with a heavy heart to write this tribute after his passing, I must state something clearly: He was the true philosopher — not me. In Ras, Namibia had a voice of reason, of truth, of conscience. And in losing him, we lost far...