Author: Edward Mumbuu (Edward Mumbuu )

All eyes will be on President Hage Geingob tomorrow when he delivers his penultimate State of the Nation Address, with many pondering how he intends to address the country’s unemployment quagmire, which has reached crisis proportions. 

Swapo leader Hage Geingob says his deputy, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, is the ruling party’s sole candidate at next year’s general elections, quashing doubts the party is still undecided in that regard.

Ambitious social justice activist Job Amupanda yesterday announced his intention to contest for the highest office in the land when Namibia heads to the polls in November 2024.

Dubbed ‘Economic Revival and Caring for the Poor’, the N$84.6 billion 2023-2024 budget has drawn the ire of some and brought joy to others, with some parliamentarians asking President Hage Geingob to remove “deadwood” ministers from his Cabinet if achieving meaningful results is his goal.

Political parties represented in the National Assembly have received no less than N$608 million from Treasury since 2019 – through parliamentary funding. These public monies are hardly accounted for, New Era has been established. 

Auditor general Junias Kandjeke found most youth centres across the country in a dilapidated state mainly due to lack of funds, a situation that poses serious health and safety risks for students. 

Six Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarians who were sworn in last year, are demanding backpay from the National Assembly, as they became duly elected members of the House in 2019.

While its leader McHenry Venaani continues singing from the transparency and accountability hymn book, some senior figures in Namibia’s second largest political party lament being in the dark about its finances.

A four-pillar proposal to address the Windhoek management committee leadership impasse crumbled like a sand-made castle on Tuesday, after the councillors failed to reach consensus.