2023-05-19Edward Mumbuu The Opuwo Town Council needs at least N$147 million to upgrade and relocate its existing oxidation ponds while also establishing a water treatment plant, the town’s acting CEO Karui Rikambura said. View more
2023-05-24Edward Mumbuu Property mogul and northern businessman Erastus ‘Chicco’ Shapumba has attempted to exonerate himself in a dodgy deal that left the small town of Opuwo without a stadium. View more
2023-05-24Edward Mumbuu A marathon Cabinet meeting yesterday directed Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila to assess the impending drought situation in the country, with a view to proactively address it. View more
2023-05-29Edward Mumbuu Police in the Kunene region have been besieged with land disputes, particularly between community conservancies and traditional leaders. View more
2023-06-02Edward Mumbuu While a court declaration exists that children of the liberation must not receive preferential treatment, the Office of the Prime Minister has allegedly been meeting a faction of the group behind closed-doors, concocting a plan on how to spend millions that are lying idle in an account. View more
2023-06-07Edward Mumbuu The agriculture ministry will roll out drought mitigation measures from 1 July 2023 to December in Kunene region and parts of Erongo and Omusati, and provide livestock support programmes in drought-stricken regions of Omaheke, Hardap and //Kharas. View more
2023-06-07Edward Mumbuu An extraordinary Swapo central committee meeting will be convened in the coming days to deliberate on the recent Supreme Court judgment on recognising same-sex marriages solemnised beyond Namibia’s borders. View more
2023-06-09Edward Mumbuu The German government has refused to budge to criticism that alongside their Namibian counterpart, they have violated the rights of Nama and Ovaherero communities by excluding them from genocide talks. View more
2023-06-13Edward Mumbuu The five-year reign of Theo Mujoro as head of the Electoral Commission of Namibia was a total nightmare, at least from where parliamentarian Henny Seibeb sits. View more
2023-06-16Edward Mumbuu National power utility NamPower is just an exaggerated retail shop that exists to buy and sell electricity to Namibians, while having failed to make the country energy-resilient in three decades. View more
2023-06-16Edward Mumbuu Defence deputy executive director Petrus Nathinge is at the centre of allegations of funds defrayed from a defence company to purportedly procure weapons destined for another country. View more
2023-06-20Edward Mumbuu Auditor general Junias Kandjeke has pointed to some accounting ambiguities at the Namibia Press Agency, slapping the agency with a qualified audit opinion in 2021. View more
2023-06-22Edward Mumbuu The department of agriculture and land reform returned at least N$98 million to the State purse, money which could have been used to address other pressing public needs. View more
2023-06-22Edward Mumbuu - Fishrot accused among those paying back- Fund recovers N$25 million in two years- If govt can fund war vets, it can fund students – Katjimune View more
2023-06-23Edward Mumbuu When the Meat Corporation of Namibia’s top brass meet in Grootfontein this weekend, the elephant in the room will be the amount of at least N$5 million the parastatal is losing a week. View more
2023-07-03Edward Mumbuu The Namibia University of Science and Technology’s outgoing council is divided. It is chairperson Florette Nakusera against the rest. View more
2023-07-07Edward Mumbuu Legislator Hidipo Hamata wants commerc ial banks removed from the government’s housing scheme, which subsidises houses by up to two-thirds of a set maximum purchase price. View more
2023-07-20Edward Mumbuu Nearly a year after a botched Birmingham trip by around 200 Namibians, the British government yesterday decided to revoke its visa-free entry for Namibia, citing the gesture’s abuse. View more
2023-07-31Edward Mumbuu A plan concocted to establish an unfenced wildlife conservation tourism park in Kunene is gaining traction, with its proponents saying all is in place to fully operationalise it. View more
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