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A ponokela ohonda yaye nomakatana …omanga umwe a twa ohonda yaye noshikuti
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A ponokela ohonda yaye nomakatana …omanga umwe a twa ohonda yaye noshikuti

Auleria Wakudumo  Omulumenhu weedula tadi tengenekwa po50 ota kongwa kopolifi moshitukulwa shaKavango-ushilo molwaashi a ponokela kaume kaye kopaihole weedula 49 nekatana. Oshiningwanima osha ningwa Osoondaxa, sha ningilwa momukunda Shiwandamo moRundu lwopo 01h00. Rafael Stefanus vati okwa tetaula po omuvelo wakaume kaye kopaihole ndele ta ponokele nokuteta ohonda yaye nomakatana, oyo yi li tai mono epango...

Katjiuongua aims to empower peers
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Katjiuongua aims to empower peers

Kavetja Ngaizuvare Mekere Veii-Katjiuongua, a passionate advocate for youth empowerment, founded the Empowerment Pathways Foundation recently to uplift Namibia’s underserved youth. He draws inspiration from his experience with racial discrimination at a private school he attended.  The organisation aims to provide youth with tools and resources they need to succeed, addressing issues such as limited...

Poem – Corona memoirs
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Poem – Corona memoirs

Rudolf Gaiseb  The retrenchment fosters a great deal of resentment. Every day, there is a loss of an element. Working hard to become eminent. As patients die at the hands of treatment. I know, dear. It’s not clear. Every eye is full of fear. People ask: ‘Why couldn’t we hear it from a seer?’ But...

China curbs exports of key chipmaking components to US
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China curbs exports of key chipmaking components to US

BEIJING – Beijing yesterday said it will restrict exports to the United States of some key components in making semiconductors, after Washington announced curbs targeting China’s ability to make advanced chips. Among the materials banned from export are metals gallium, antimony and germanium, Beijing’s commerce ministry said in a statement that cited “national security” concerns. Exports...

Opinion – Rain is the sunshine of our lives
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Opinion – Rain is the sunshine of our lives

As we rapidly approach the end of the year, we often take stock and review the year. What have we achieved? Did our resolutions withstand the pressures of everyday life, or will we try again in the new year? Whether you separate your year into personal and work triumphs and challenges or lump it all...

Opinion –  Dissecting the caricatured green hydrogen conspiracies 
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Opinion –  Dissecting the caricatured green hydrogen conspiracies 

There has been no more controversial topic and dilemma in Namibia than green hydrogen. This has just demonstrated that literacy levels around science and topics around the discovery of new industries are topics that need public attention in Namibia.  It is common knowledge that science should be left to scientists, but the public needs educational...

City fails to elect leadership
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City fails to elect leadership

The Windhoek City Council on Tuesday failed, for the second time, to elect political office bearers due to a lack of quorum. The elections were postponed to Tuesday morning after councillors walked out of a meeting chaired by Magistrate Immanuel Udjombala on Monday afternoon.  The walkout followed Udjombala’s refusal to grant the councillors a recess....

Zambezi farmer holds hope for rain
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Zambezi farmer holds hope for rain

Michael Mutonga Liswaniso KATIMA MULILO – Well-known Zambezi resident and retired police commissioner, Bolen Sankwasa is hopeful that more rains will fall in the region in the upcoming weeks and enable communal farmers like him to cultivate the land. Zambezi and other parts of Namibia are drought stricken – a situation that forced President Nangolo...

Over 4 000 GBV cases recorded 
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Over 4 000 GBV cases recorded 

KEETMANSHOOP – The Namibian Police recorded 4 814 gender-based violence (GBV) cases countrywide during the 2023/24 financial year, Minister of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, Doreen Sioka, has said. In a statement read on her behalf at the launch of the 16 Days of Activism against GBV in the //Kharas region on Monday,...

BoN donates gym equipment to Oshana police
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BoN donates gym equipment to Oshana police

OSHAKATI – The Bank of Namibia (BoN) handed over gym equipment worth over N$300 000 to the Namibian Police Force (NamPol) in the Oshana region on Monday.Handing over the donation at Oshakati, BoN’s director of currency management and banking operations Sencia Kaizemi-Rukata said the men and women in uniform are the backbone of the society...