Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute yesterday convicted Jeremia van Wyk of rape by way of penile penetration of a five-year-old girl. 

President Hage Geingob said Namibia will continue to contribute and work for an Africa that is fit for children.

Plans are well underway to transform the Ministry of Public Enterprises into a holding company to provide State-owned entities the agility to adjust to economic conditions and to derive meaningful return on investment for the Namibian people.

Swapo spokesperson Hilma Nicanor has dismissed media reports suggesting the party’s politburo has rejected a plan backed by President Hage Geingob to reduce the number of years a candidate needs to compete for top party positions, such as vice president and secretary general. 

The Cohen Fistball Club (CFC) continued to dominate the Bank Windhoek Fistball League when it won the third round in Swakopmund recently. 

I started playing basketball since grade seven when a friend and classmate, Penda, invited me to the UN Plaza for some games. During the grade eight application process, I applied to Immanuel Shifidi Secondary School, and they offered basketball as a sport code.

Please allow me to share this 4th grade Social Studies topic, which I think is one of the pivotal events that shaped and laid a foundation for both the South African and Namibian political struggle, post-1976.

Children living on the streets and those subjected to child labour have expressed the sentiment of being treated as the stepchildren of Namibia as they are often excluded from child and youth spaces and programmes, and have no access to information, opportunities or justice.

This year, as we celebrate the Day of the African Child under the theme ‘Eliminating harmful practices affecting children: Progress on Policy and Practice since 2013’, we recall the 16 June 1976 uprising in Soweto, South Africa, where high school pupils protested against apartheid-enforced Afrikaans as the medium of instruction.