Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

The growth in healthcare costs in recent years has become an issue of concern to the domestic medical aid funding industry. 

The phenomenon of the internet and digital technology has opened a new world of interaction and information sharing. However, it has also widened the gap between the haves and have-nots, and provided governments with new ways of exerting control over their citizens, especially in Africa. 

Community media gives a voice to communities and allows them to define their path. It operates in the interests of the community it serves and creates a platform for freedom of expression. 

After decades of enjoying a monopoly in the local meat processing sector, agriculture minister Calle Schlettwein believes it is high time for the Meat Corporation of Namibia to re-strategise and reposition itself as a modern entity to counter escalating competition. 

Zambezi Police over the weekend ceased several illegal items, which were either smuggled into Namibia or were about to be smuggled out of Namibia into neighbouring Zambia at an ungazetted point of entry. 

Legal trouble seems to follow British businessman and murder-accused, Harvey Boulter everywhere he goes as a group of Emiratis claim he defrauded them out of more than N$56.9 million. 

Salomon Kanyemba, the defence counsel for one of the American citizen’s accused of the assassin-like murder of Namibian André Heckmair in Windhoek in January 2011, yesterday accused a State witness of colluding with the State to fabricate evidence against his client.

Conservancies who have dragged ReconAfrica to court in an attempt to stop exploration on community-managed land, are asking government to waive the legal cost which now stands at N$520 757.

The lack of monitoring of mining activities and mines in the Daures constituency has resulted in the mushrooming of illegal activities at the expense of the local community.

In light of the worsening political and military situation in the eastern DRC, President Hage Geingob, the chairperson of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, said the region is ready to tackle the shifting dynamics in that country.