Charmaine Boois MARIENTAL – More than 29 000 pensioners born before 1944 have registered to vote in the upcoming elections, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) recently announced. They will form part of the thousands of Namibians going to the polls on Wednesday to vote in the Presidential and National Assembly Elections. In the Hardap...
Uakutura Kambaekua OPUWO – Swapo party leader assigned to Kunene, Jenelly Matundu, has urged voters to elect Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as the country’s first female president, as Swapo seeks to retain its dominance in Namibian politics. Nandi-Ndaitwah is Swapo’s president ial candidate. Matundu made the call during the party’s final rally and voter drive-through...
Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) president McHenry Venaani promised that if elected as president of Namibia, his government would only consist of 15 ministers and four deputy ministers. Venaani at his party’s final star rally in Windhoek on Sunday stressed that having a vice president and different ministerial portfolios such as prime minister, and deputy prime...
Suzith Tjitaura KARASBURG – Residents of Karasburg in the ||Kharas Region have expressed readiness to cast their votes in the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Wednesday. In an interview with Nampa here on Monday, 39-year-old Mouca Vries said even though he has not participated in elections before he was ready to cast his vote. ...
EENHANA – The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) in the Ohangwena Region is asking Namibians to leave their cellphones and firearms behind when going to cast their votes on Wednesday. According to the region’s police commander, Ottilie Kashuupulwa in an interview with Nampa on Monday, eligible voters are not allowed to take pictures and videos when...
TEHRAN – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient, and that he deserved a “death sentence”. In his first remarks since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu last week, Khamenei told...
KAMPALA – A Ugandan court awarded damages to 20 people, who were arrested, paraded in public and tortured on suspicion of being homosexuals, in a decision hailed by rights groups on Monday. Uganda passed one of the world’s harshest anti-gay laws last year.But the case relates to the arrest of a group of youth in...
DAKAR – Senegal will on Sunday commemorate the massacre of dozens of African soldiers who had fought for then colonial ruler France by French troops in a Dakar suburb on 1 December 1944. France has deliberately tried to erase from memory the mass killings of soldiers, known as “tirailleurs” (riflemen), from its various former African...
Zebaldt Ngaruka Gobabis mayor Melba Tjozongoro has expressed feelings of betrayal by Swapo over the use of the closed Legare Stadium for the party’s final rally in Omaheke on Saturday. The municipal council had decided on 11 September to close the region’s largest sports stadium, to allow for lawn recovery. Tjozongoro defended the council’s resolution,...
Auleria Wakudumo Omuulikwa presidente wongudu yoNamibia Economic Freedom Fighter (NEFF) Epafras Mukwilongo okwa ti, eeveta neemhango doshilongo oda nyengwa okuamena ovanhu vado, noda ekelashi omahodi, eemhumbwe, neendjodi dovanyasha Ovanamibia oule weedula 34. Edi okwe di popya poshiongi sha xuuninwa shongudu sha li mOkatana- moshitukulwa shaShana mOlomakaya. Okwa ti omanifesto yongudu yaye otai popile ovanyasha noya...