Author: Edward Mumbuu (Edward Mumbuu )

The appointment of deputy inspector general Joseph Shikongo as the country’s new police chief has been largely lauded.

The ruling Swapo party is the last political formation to lecture others about running local authorities as it failed at an industrial scale, for the better part of 32 years, Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi has said.

The Affirmative Repositioning (AR) has successfully toppled the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC)-dominated management committee through a motion of no confidence.

Twenty-four years ago, then an officer in the Namibia Defence Force, Joseph Shikongo rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel on 1 September 1998. 

After years in her cocoon, veteran Swapo politician Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana is ready for deployment anywhere by the ruling party for as long as the process is above board and bona fide.   

Despite numerous attempts by the ruling party to shoot down reports of disunity within its ranks, the Swapo Party Youth League’s re-elected secretary Ephraim Nekongo has admitted the party continues to experience disunity among its “comrades”.

Notwithstanding external pressure to cancel its telecommunications licence with the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran), the Windhoek municipality has refused to budge and will continue with its 5G aspirations.  

Bad luck comes in threes is an adage that sums up the perfect storm that engulfs embattled rail carrier TransNamib.  

Former Windhoek mayor Fransina Kahungu has lost faith in the current municipal council’s management committee (MC), saying it has lost the service delivery compass.