New Delhi – More than 80 people have died in recent days after drinking toxic bootleg alcohol in the Indian state of Punjab, officials and reports said Saturday. The people died in three districts of the northern state and police have arrested 25 people, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. Hundreds of...
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic and world No.2 Rafael Nadal have entered the US Open tune-up tournament to be played in New York while Serena Williams is in the women’s field. Organisers of the ATP and WTA Western and Southern Open, typically played in Cincinnati but moved to New York this year due to the coronavirus pandemic,...
JERUSALEM – Thousands protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu across Israel on Saturday night, demanding he resign over alleged corruption and a resurgence of coronavirus cases. The protests took place at scores of intersections and bridges, where people held banners accusing Netanyahu of “failure” and calling for his resignation, as well as outside his private...
HARARE – Zimbabwean top writer and Booker Prize nominee, Tsitsi Dangarembga was freed on bail on Saturday following her arrest during anti-government protests a day earlier. Dangarembga (61) was charged with incitement to commit violence and breaching anti-coronavirus health regulations after staging a two-women demonstration in Harare which coincided with the second anniversary of President...
JOHANNESBURG – The UN health agency warned that the coronavirus pandemic would be lengthy and could lead to “response fatigue”, as the case count in South Africa topped half a million. Six months after the World Health Organisation declared a global emergency, the novel coronavirus has killed more than 680 000 people and infected more...
The 2019/20 Asset Declaration Register is a frightening display of politicians’ opulence in the form of numerous shares in various companies, multiple lavish homes and large tracts of farmland. Nampa recently reviewed the asset register and found that Minister of Environment and Tourism, Pohamba Shifeta, owns two houses, one with 12 bedrooms and another with...
Former President Hifikepunye Pohamba is still disheartened to see houses constructed through the mass housing initiative unoccupied and vandalised, while thousands of Namibians do not have decent housing. He registered his disappointment at the recent Swapo post-mortem meeting on the party’s poor performance during the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections. Pohamba, whose statement was...
OPUWO – Tribalism is one of the main factors that keep democracy and transformation of people’s lives at a slow pace and through its evils, development of economically prosperous societies is derailed. These remarks were uttered by Kunene region governor Marius Sheya on Wednesday while delivering his third state of the region address (SORA) at...
Aina Simon OSHAKATI – Chief of the Namibian Defence Force Air Marshal Martin Pinehas is concerned with the increase in incidents of civilians encroaching into military camps countrywide. During a courtesy visit to Oshana regional governor recently, Pinehas said the Namibian Defence Act has made provision for a 500-meter buffer zone between civilians’ dwellings and...
Thembi Kandanga We have all been there before – some worse than others. We get our first job after university and banks start offering us credit cards, personal loans, overdrafts and revolving loans; we don’t need and certainly cannot afford. Having fallen prey to a few of these tactics myself, I know how things can...