This year Namibia was downgraded to a lower-middle-income country by the world bank. This I believe was due to the fact that prosperity is not shared by everyone and pervasive inequality persists. The legacy of privileged elites endures decades after apartheid. Namibia remains among the world’s most unequal nations with roughly more than 40% of...
Iuze Mukube A Windhoek High Court Judge on Friday vocally condemned the killing of a close family member by a father and son, stating that the killing of the deceased within a domestic relationship constituted an aggravating factor. Judge Philanda Christiaan stated this factor requires stern judicial response to deter violence within the family and...
KATIMA MULILO – Likolo la Zwelopili ya Libaka za Litolopo ni Matakanyani lisulile masheleñi alikana bolule ba mwanda (N$100 million), kufa katengo katolopo ya Katima Mulilo kuli kaise lisebelezo za mulilo wa magesi ni mezi kwa makomponi abalwa ana ikahela. Likwambuyu wa Likolo James Sankwasa nazibahalize kanako ya mukopano wa kuikambota Labubeli. Naize makomponi ana...
Taimi Haihambo Sakeus Shikololo, omunamido 24 okwa ti vo nofikola kava li lela eefelende molwoluhepo, nonghalo oye ke mu fininika a fiye po ofikola ye a waimine ondjila yaye yeengalo. Shikololo oo a shivika nawa nedina Chicco Deng mokapale kokwiimba, okwa ti okwa dile kEloolo moshitukulwa shaShana. Okuputuka kwaye vati okwa kala kudjuu nokwa...
Maqonda Ndlovu The Japanese embassy in Namibia and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) pledged support to Oukongo Combined School and Otjimuhaka Primary School in the Kunene region after their joint field visit last week. The visit was led by the Japanese Ambassador to Namibia, Shinichi Asazuma, alongside the UNICEF representative, Samuel Ocran. The visit...
Isabel Bento HENTIES BAY – The coastal town of Henties Bay has inaugurated a series of developments, including the installation of a fully operational Close Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance system across the town. The event also included the unveiling of the town’s first traffic lights, the commissioning of a new open market and the handover...
Uakutura Kambaekua As the watershed Regional Council and Local Authority elections draw near, the battle for the Kunene region is intensifying, with at least 33 candidates contesting seats across the seven constituencies. This includes 10 political parties and associations striving for dominance in all four local authorities, with 156 individuals vying for council seats. Following...
Matheus David The government on Friday officially handed over 377 completed houses under the Mass Housing Development Programme at Otjomuise Extension 10. Speaking at the event, Urban and Rural Development Minister James Sankwasa said the moment marks relief, not celebration, as many projects took far longer than expected to complete. He said fifty-eight of the...
Auleria Wakudumo The town of Oshikuku in the Omusati region has officially opened its new cultural heritage centre. The event, held on Friday, drew community members, traditional leaders who gathered to celebrate the town’s continued growth and cultural pride. The ceremony was officiated by Deputy Minister of Urban and Rural Development Evelyn !Nawases-Taeyele who described...
VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV decried poverty on Sunday, urging world leaders and Catholics to reach out to marginalised people, as the Church celebrated a “Jubilee of the Poor.” The US pope has made social justice a key theme of his papacy, now in its sixth month since being made head of the world’s...