Author: Kuzeeko Tjitemisa (Kuzeeko Tjitemisa )

National Unity Democratic Organisation member of parliament Utjiua Muinjangue has called on fellow legislators to consider introducing enforceable gender quotas to boost female representation in parliament.

The Institute for Public Policy Research has called on lawmakers to ensure the draft Cybercrime Bill ensures that the protection it aims to provide is balanced, reasonable, and achieved through constitutional means while upholding the principles of the rule of law.

The recent Opuwo Rural and Katima Mulilo Urban constituency by-elections cost the Electoral Commission of Namibia a whopping N$2.5 million. 

Opposition politicians and political analysts yesterday criticised finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi’s budget speech, claiming the budget is not pro-youth and that young people were invoked by Shiimi as rhetorical agents to expedite appeals in the political theatre.

Information minister Peya Mushelenga on Tuesday addressed the second annual Africa Digital Finance Summit currently underway in Nairobi, Kenya. 

An alarming number of rape cases has forced the justice ministry to amend the country’s combating of rape law, which would see perpetrators receive stiffer sentences.

The dispute between the warring factions of the Ovaherero Traditional Authority over the paramount chieftainship may end soon, with the National Unity Democratic Organisation leadership set to intervene.

An expert who has worked on social protection programmes in over 40 countries says Namibia can afford the basic income grant.

The Landless People’s Movement has called on President Hage Geingob to halt the country’s resettlement programme, describing it as skewed and in favour of the well-connected. 

The land question, Neckartal Dam, genocide and challenges faced by local authorities were some of the issues on the agenda during talks between President Hage Geingob and a high-level delegation from the Landless People’s Movement led by its leader Bernadus Swartbooi yesterday.