Molly Weyulu The Namibian Police have reported a concerning increase in fire incidents over the past few months, leading to fatalities and significant property damage. Namibian Police Force spokesperson Kauna Shikwambi in a statement said several arson cases, some involving minors, are currently under investigation. In a recent incident in Tsumeb, a fire that reportedly...
Unemployed teachers held another demonstration in Windhoek on Tuesday in hopes of meeting education minister, Sanet Steenkamp. The unemployed graduates previously held a demonstration on 3 June this year against the lack of job opportunities. The demonstration on Tuesday, themed ‘Abolishment of interviews for teachers and call for mass recruitment of qualified unemployed teachers’, saw...
Hilma Nalupe FNB Namibia officially launched the 25th edition of the Otjihavera race experience yesterday in Windhoek, marking the 20th anniversary of one of the country’s most iconic mountain biking events. The race, first conceptualised by cycling enthusiasts Tony and Sigi Bassingthwaighte along with two other founding members, has grown from a simple idea into...
Hilma Nalupe Originally from Keetmanshoop Pamoritha, Keister is a born student athlete. She grew up playing soccer, rugby, tennis and netball but stuck to hockey as she fell in love with the sport and never looked back. Keister started playing the sport back in 2015 when the captain of her school’s hockey team asked her...
LONDON – Five seafarers have been rescued after a cargo ship was attacked and sunk off Yemen, maritime monitors said yesterday, as a search continues for the remaining crew. The MV Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier, was badly damaged in an attack in the Red Sea that started on Monday and continued into Tuesday....
BEIJING – Five people are missing after a house was buried in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in southwest China yesterday, authorities and state media said. The landslide in Xuyong county in Sichuan province occurred after more than 150 millimetres (six inches) of rain fell in just three hours overnight, the local government said...
NEW YORK – US social media giants have rolled back content moderation in recent months, leading to an “explosion of hate” online, according to the head of a leading New York-based antisemitism watchdog. Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, says antisemitism has surged since the start of the Gaza war, after Palestinian militant group...
WASHINGTON – United States president Donald Trump welcomed five African leaders to a White House lunch yesterday, with commerce and trade expected to feature prominently amongst a mixed bag of potential agenda items. The presidents of Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Gabon – five nations located along Africa’s Atlantic Coast – will convene at Trump’s...
Iuze Mukube A complainant in a High Court case involving the alleged unlawful sale of his house told the court yesterday that he never authorised the sale. During a cross-examination by the defence, Angolan national Samuel Visconde Dias informed Judge Herman January that he was unaware that his house had been sold. He only discovered that...
Mulisa Simiyasa OKAHANDJA – The bail application for two suspects linked to the alleged massive drug discovery on a commercial farm in the Hochfeld area was on Tuesday postponed to Thursday after two court interpreters were booked off sick on Tuesday. The two suspects are 27-year-old Armand Carel Schultz, a South African national and farm...