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...
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...
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...
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...
The National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) last Thursday apportioned blame on Speaker of the National Assembly Professor Peter Katjavivi on how he handled the issue of the founding president, Sam Nujoma, who was called a ‘thug and liar’ in parliament. Addressing a press conference last Thursday, NUNW secretary general Job Muniaro said the country’s...
A new political party, founded by 2019 presidential candidate Dr Panduleni Itula, dubbed Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), will hold its maiden convention at a Windhoek hotel today. The gathering will adopt the party’s constitution, while the party symbols and official colours will also be unveiled. Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) chief electoral officer Theo Mujoro...
Omaheke governor Pijoo Nganate has implored the regional political readers to fix the region’s image, which he said has been of late in the news for all the wrong reasons. He described this as regrettable and damaging. Nganate said this while addressing the region in his maiden state of the region address (SORA) that was...