Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) president Mike Kavekotora yesterday said the party was troubled by the alleged bribery scandal implicating his two senior party leaders. RDP secretary general and City of Windhoek councillor Brunhilde Cornelius, party secretary for transport Nicanor Ndjoze, alongside City of Windhoek information and communication technology strategic executive and acting CEO...
The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) feels to curb disinformation and fake news on poll results on social media, the commission has taken a conscious decision to create and appoint a new corporate communication manager to develop a communication strategy and coordinate its response to the negative impact of fake news and misinformation. This week,...
Kuzeeko Tjitemisa Edgar Brandt Anti-Corruption Commission director general Paulus Noa yesterday said the commission has opened a preliminary investigation into the alleged bribery scandal implicating a senior official of the City of Windhoek and two opposition politicians. This follows a report by Al Jazeera yesterday in which Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) City of Windhoek councillor...
Mbunga mpatanesi zopaveta Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) mpitisili gwazo katente asi vahepa kukatura vakandiindate vana kara nononkondo mokurugana posiruwo esi kavakere nmeponmgo lyawo lyombunga zaweo zontjima ntjima omu kavatanterere asi vahepa kukahorowora vantu ava navakavakarerapo moukansela wondango zonodoropa ntani wonomukunda momahoroworo ogo gana kuwiza. Mahoroworo aga goukansela wonodoropa ntani wonomukunda kuna kukakarako mwaMangundu mvhura zeezi....
Tributes have poured in for struggle stalwart Jason Angula, who died this week and was known for his political and social activism. Angula died on Monday in a Windhoek hospital after a long illness, according to his brother Aupapa. He was 72. Former Robben Island political prisoners Martin Kapewasha and Ben Ulenga remembered Angula as...
The country’s official opposition, Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) leader McHenry Venaani exhorted the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) members to nominate competent and selfless energetic leaders to represent the party in the upcoming regional and local authority elections. The regional and local authority polls are set for November. Venaani expressed his sentiments while opening the...
President Hage Geingob yesterday expressed condolences to his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa following the passing of Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The South African Broadcasting Corporation reported yesterday that Mandela died aged 59 at a Johannesburg hospital in the early hours of Monday. She had...
National Unity Democratic Organisation’s (Nudo) party has banned its veteran leader Vetaruhe Kandorozu from actively participating or contesting for any leadership positions within the party for two years, after he was found guilty of having de-campaigned his party during last year’s elections. “You are barred from actively participating or contesting for any leadership position of...
Political analyst Hoze Riruako believes the newly established Independent Patriot for Change (IPC) if approved by the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) will erode the support base of established parties in the country. ECN chief electoral and referenda officer Theo Mujoro confirmed to New Era this week that Dr Panduleni Itula who contested in last year’s presidential election...
President Hage Geingob has reminded governors that their duty in the regions is to defend government programmes but not to act as “petitioners” who are there to complain about what the central government has done or not done. Geingob raised this sentiment during a virtual conference with all 14 regional governors last Friday. “As regional...