Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admitted David De Gea’s place is not guaranteed after the goalkeeper endured another error-strewn display in Manchester United’s FA Cup semifinal defeat to Chelsea. Chelsea will face London rivals Arsenal in the final on 1 August thanks to a pair of embarrassing blunders from De Gea in United’s 3-1 loss at Wembley...
Paris – French authorities have reported 400 to 500 active coronavirus outbreak clusters but there are no signs of an imminent “second wave,” Health Minister Olivier Veran said yesterday. Many of the current virus clusters involve abattoirs or other contained professional settings such as old age homes, he said. Others had resulted from family reunions...
Three men died in a motor vehicle accident on Saturday morning at around 03h00 in Windhoek when the driver allegedly lost control over the vehicle. An incident report, issued by the Namibian police, said the incident occurred on the B1 road Western Bypass under the bridge between the Katutura State Hospital and the Windhoek Central...
Cecilia Iyambo The directorate of education in the Kavango East region has decided to take charge of Siguruguru Junior Primary School, which previously could not be approved and registered due to its establishment on illegal land. Deputy education director Pontianus Musore said the directorate formally registered the school and were currently busy transferring teachers from...
RUNDU – The Elizabeth Nepembe Correctional Facility in the Kavango East region last week recognised inmate Sam Robson Laboni for his exceptional performance in the Namibian College of Open Learning (Namcol) grade 10 external examinations of 2019. The media, based in Rundu, were on Thursday given a chance by the correctional facility to interview 30-year-old...
Moses Magadza Outspoken judge, jurist and scholar Justice Oagile Key Dingake says the recent re-run of the presidential election in Malawi constitutes “a triumph of democracy”. Dingake is a citizen of Botswana, who now sits on the supreme and national courts of Papua New Guinea. He made the remarks last week when he virtually addressed...
JOHANNESBURG – The South African Airways Pilots’ Association (SAAPA) said on Wednesday it welcomed the first step towards a revitalised national carrier after creditors voted in favour of a business rescue plan for the airline. Tuesday’s vote saw 86% of creditors support the plan for loss-making South African Airways (SAA), which the government placed under...
For far too long, low-income earners have been left out of the housing market in the country, for simple reasons of building materials’ price and labour and land being out of their financial reach.These were the remarks of Minister of Urban and Rural Development Erastus Uutoni on Thursday, during the signing ceremony of contractors tasked...
This article is in response to one that was co-authored by Shaun Whittaker, Harry Boesak and Mitchell van Wyk, titled ‘Statues and Nation Building’ (The Namibian, 10 July 2020). History should be a neutral account of historic facts but is often not so. It is rather a collection of events influenced by frequent biases, prejudices...
There is an African saying that when a male elephant dies, every villager can claim his/her “pound of flesh” without depriving the others because the male elephant is big enough. A lot of tributes have been pouring in on the legacy of Jason Angula since his passing last Monday (13th July 2020). I too want...