The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) on Monday approved the registration of the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement to contest in the Windhoek local authority polls set for November. This was confirmed by (ECN) chief electoral and referenda officer Theo Mujoro in a letter to AR chairperson Bernadine Johannes on Monday. AR applied June this year to...
James Uerikua, the governor of Otjozondjupa, has asked inhabitants of the region to convert the current challenges faced by the region, including the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, into opportunities. Uerikua made this call while delivering his maiden state of the region address (SORA) at Otjiwarongo yesterday. “In this time of economic hardship, we need to develop...
New Era journalist Kuzeeko Tjitemisa (KT) this week caught up with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) country director Dr Eric Dziuban to discuss some of the pertinent issues and challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. KT: The impact of the global Covid-19 outbreak has caused havoc in many countries, with economies wrecked...
A top official at the Namibia Central Intelligence Service has been named as the new executive director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) following a surprise reshuffle of accounting officers yesterday. Tylvas Shilongo will take over from Hannu Shipena who has been transferred to the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE). The Office of the Prime...
President Hage Geingob says the late Andrew Mlangeni represents the last of a generation of top freedom fighters and cadres of the ANC who endured a lot for their country. Geingob said this on Wednesday following the death of the revered struggle veteran who died on Tuesday. Mlangeni, the last surviving anti-apartheid activist convicted with...
Otjozondjupa governor James Uerikua has promised the residents of Okahandja that President Hage Geingob’s administration has taken a decision to deal with the thorny land issue at the Garden Town. Addressing residents at a packed Nau-Aib stadium yesterday, Uerikua said the ministry of urban and rural development has already been instructed to start surveying land where...
The Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement yesterday appointed its fiery activist Paulus Kathanga, well known as Pau Pau, as the movement’s head of elections. The announcement was made by AR activist-in-chief Job Amupanda who at the same time revealed the movement will field candidates in all 121 constituencies and 57 local authorities in the upcoming regional and local authority...
OKAHANDJA – The contentious and long-standing issues of land and genocide dominated speeches of speakers during the 50th commemoration of the death of revered nationalist and Ovaherero paramount chief Hosea Kutako. Chief Kutako, who is hailed as an indomitable nationalist, died at the age of 100 on 18 July 1970. President Hage Geingob in a...
Works and transport minister John Mutorwa has intervened into the much-publicised saga at the Namibia Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), ordering the company’s board to reinstate the suspended assistant legal officer Natalia Isak. Isak was suspended after she was involved in a physical confrontation with the parastatal’s chief financial officer. Prior to her suspension, she wrote...
The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) says it will put under microscopic scrutiny its members wanting to contest as candidates on its tickets in regional and local authority polls in November. This, according to PDM secretary general Manuel Ngaringombe, was decided during its central committee meeting, held in Windhoek last week. Ngaringombe said the party will allow all...