With the just-ended Swapo elective congress, we learned that politics is not about glorifying personalities at the expense of principles. Personalities may serve their interest, and are not more important than the principles and the unifying values which bring people together.
An elementary schoolboy mistake plunged the Swapo Party into an unprecedented constitutional crisis this week. The damning error threw the outcome of the ruling party’s central committee elections into disarray after it emerged that a totally wrong list of successful candidates was read out during the closing ceremony at the seventh elective congress on Monday night.
People generally have the idea that performance auditors are out there to catch managers doing stuff they are not supposed to do.
The Gr o o t f o n t e i n municipality claims the suit filed against it by its suspended CEO, Kisco Sinvula is an attempt to cover up serious allegations against him.
Police chief Joseph Shikongo lauded Namibia Breweries Limited’s responsible drinking campaign, saying it will sensitise drivers on the importance of not driving under the influence of alcohol.
A German doctor will be remembered for many years by the residents of the Democratic Resettlement Community, an impoverished community living on the outskirts of Swakopmund in the Erongo region.
Amidst the internal wrangles brought by Swapo’s just-ended seventh elective congress, Swapo veteran Helmut Angula has called for calm within the party, and for members to focus on finding amicable solutions to rectify the mistakes.
After relative peace in recent months, the City of Windhoek council yesterday failed to elect its new office-bearers after councillors representing Swapo and the Independent Patriots for Change staged a walkout, much to the disappointment of residents and invited guests.
Former minister of justice and attorney general Sacky Shanghala and two of his co-accused in the Fishrot trial have joined Ricardo Gustavo in the petition to appeal Windhoek High Court Judge Kobus Miller’s decision not to recuse himself from the trial for perceived bias.