Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) secretary Ephraim Nekongo says discussions about succession with the ruling party ahead of the 2027 watershed congress are premature. The party is still completing internal renewal processes across its structures, Nekongo said. Entering the Swapo congress discourse this week, the youth leader said the party follows a structured process that...
Manuel Tomas, the owner of Manu Joinery, has turned a family trade into a livelihood that supports not only himself but his entire family. Based in Windhoek’s Ombili settlement, Tomas’ joinery and carpentry business kicked off in 2014 after taking over from his father, who had been running the same type of business before retiring....
The United Democratic Front (UDF) used its consultative meeting with President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah to highlight pressing challenges in Kunene. Chief among them was human-wildlife conflict, a legal dispute involving the regional council, housing shortages, youth unemployment and inequality between rural and urban schools. This comes at a time when stray elephants are wreaking havoc in...
The Chief Executive Officer of the African Union Sports Council Region 5 Games, Stanley Mutoya, is a busy man, ensuring that the upcoming Region 5 Games in Mozambique are a success. New Era engaged Mutoya to gauge his thoughts on what the Games mean for sport development in Southern Africa and how preparations are unfolding. ...
Senior women’s national team player and Windhoek City Sporting Club defender, Lydiana Nanamûs, was born in Rehoboth and raised in Windhoek, where she began playing football. Her journey into football did not start because she loved the sport, but because she did not want to stay home on Saturdays doing household chores. Nanamûs attended an...
Iuze Mukube For the first time, ex-Cabinet minister Sacky Shanghala and his co-accused Ricardo Gustavo find themselves diametrically opposed on the way forward in the protracted Fishrot matter that has faced legal harbingers from the genesis. This week, the duo disagreed on the fitness of the presiding officer, Acting Judge Marilize du Plessis. On one...
Heather Erdmann REHOBOTH – The Rehoboth Town Council has set aside at least N$70 million to replace conventional water and electricity meters with prepaid ones, a move aimed at improving revenue collection and preventing future arrears. The rollout, which started in specific areas with historically high non-payment rates, is now expanding to all suburbs. The...
Lissony Njembo Twenty-five years ago, Mbakondja Upora was disconnected from her biological family, where she was subjected to wanton abuse and neglect. She was between two and three years old when she was unchained from the dreadful arms of her late aunt. She would go on to spend the next quarter of a century in...
Rudolf Gaiseb Swapo parliamentarian Tobie Aupindi says a commodity reserve will protect Namibia against currency volatility, while physically backing dividends will protect Namibia’s wealth. The member of parliament (MP) also expressed concern over Namibia’s mineral and natural resources wealth that has been converted into fiat currency for decades, saying it has exposed the country to...
Rudolf Gaiseb National Assembly Speaker Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila says the Legislature has more bills to develop to improve Namibia’s training capacity to respond to the lack of specialist workers in the country’s health sector. This comes after her visit to the Windhoek Central Hospital’s Children’s Cardiac Intensive Care Unit yesterday, which revealed that Namibia’s department, among...