There seems to be little return on the billions government pumps into the defence ministry, if a statement delivered by its minister Frans Kapofi yesterday is anything to go by.
Author: Edward Mumbuu (Edward Mumbuu )
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Bring back our Meatco
A group of commercial beef producers – mainly previously advantaged farmers – are demanding that government immediately stops meddling in the affairs of the Meat Corporation of Namibia.
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Parliament must inspire confidence
Parliament must enact laws that will boost investments while also inspiring confidence in the citizenry if Namibia is to realise her full potential, President Hage Geingob says, setting the tone for the 2023 legislative calendar.
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Calle: No beef with limping Meatco… flirts with Savana Beef behind closed doors
Despite painting a bleak picture of the struggling Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco), agriculture minister Calle Schlettwein now says the entity is not his baby, instead referring queries pertaining to it to the finance ministry, under which the corporation resides.
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Geingob: Local news headlines depressing
While the media is expected to keep the government on its toes, President Hage Geingob is concerned that it cannot be true that there is nothing the State is doing right as depicted by continuous negative headlines in the press.
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Katjiua establishes generational mission
One of the claimant Ovaherero Traditional Authority paramount chiefs, academic Mutjinde Katjiua, says he has located his mission for the polarised community, but like his predecessors, he too faces counter-revolutionary forces.
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Meatco borrows from Peter to pay Paul – Schlettwein
Despite paying off commercial bank loans, Meatco’s financial position never improved an inch, as the entity merely borrowed N$437.3 million from the Development Bank of Namibia to pay off the said loans, leaving nothing to write home about.
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Otjimbingwe delivers Riruako …Venaani, Kavekotora gracious in defeat
Shortly before the crack of dawn on Sunday at the historic Otjimbingwe, the towering Hoze Riruako rose to be unveiled as new Ovaherero paramount chief-designate.
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NNN enters condom tender fray
Swapo vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has added her voice against the controversial medical tenders, saying the country’s opulence should benefit the masses, as opposed to a select few.
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CPBN abstains from condom factory fracas
Despite promising that it would ascertain whether health tender magnate Shapwa Kanyama’s purported factory exists, and manufactures condoms, the silence from the Central Procurement Board is deafening.