The MTC HopSol Youth Soccer League continued its exciting restart with several high-scoring matches over the weekend at the Deutscher Turn und Sportverein (DTS), Sport Klub Windhoek (SKW) and Ramblers Sports Club in the capital. In the under-17 league, Ramblers A beat DTS by a 2-0 scoreline, while Ramblers B accounted for Windhoek Gymnasium by...
TAIPEI – Few geopolitical contests are as mismatched as China and Taiwan. One is an authoritarian regional superpower of 1.4 billion people that boasts the world’s largest standing army and spends more on its military than any other country except the United States. The other is a self-ruled democracy of 23 million, a comparative economic...
PARIS – World leaders on Sunday pledged more than 250 million euros for disaster-struck Lebanon, conference host France said, with the emergency aid to be delivered “directly” to a population reeling from the deadly port blast in Beirut. Fifteen government leaders including US President Donald Trump took part in the virtual conference hosted by French...
PORT LOUIS – Salvage crews raced against time Monday to prevent a second disastrous oil spill off the picture-perfect coastline of Mauritius, with a damaged tanker carrying thousands of tonnes of fuel at risk of splitting apart. The bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on July 25 with 4,000 tonnes of fuel aboard and began...
EEMBAXU – The northern and eastern regions of Namibia have abundant cattle posts and domestic employment opportunities for unemployed young Namibians, said Kanana Hishoono, the former Swapo Elders’ Council secretary. Hishoono said this while speaking during the Ohangwena region governor Walde Ndevashiya’s maiden state of the region address (SORA) at the Billy Mwaningange Rural Development...
Shoombe Shanyengana Late afternoon at /Uibes in the Daweb constituency in the Hardap region, Chrizelda Witbooi holds a three-metre improvised radio antenna made from wire and stick, protruding above the roof, while her husband Dawid !Homchob tunes the radio in the hope to get radio frequency from the national radio broadcast in their local Nama...
Zimbabwean nationals, including those in the diaspora, had rejoiced at the ousting of former leader Robert Mugabe following massive protests in the southern African country in 2017. Mugabe, who had ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist and left a divided legacy when he passed on last year, was forced to resign under military pressure after...
Faith Kavamba The Erongo Regional Council (ERC), through its Regional AIDS Coordinating Committee (RACOC) has been combating a multitude of social ills through its pioneering male forum. The male forum programme was established under the stewardship of Kleria Autanga the ERC community health officer who coordinates RACOC within the region. The forum was proposed by...
One of our duties as human beings is to make the world a better place through truthful and honest speech because inaction is complicity. This is what I have come to realise after immense effort trying to understand how the world works. It is for this reason that I bring recourse to a few highly...
There is a need for the public and private sectors to efficiently and effectively collaborate in the name of public private partnerships (PPPs) for the greater good of service delivery in Namibia. At times, public services are delayed – for instance when local authorities around the country delay the picking up of wastes from residential...