President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called on African leaders to close ranks, defend multilateralism and assert the continent’s collective interests in a rapidly fragmenting global order. She made the appeal during her maiden address to the African Union Assembly in Addis Ababa on Saturday at the 39th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly for newly elected...
Iuze Mukube A 40-year-old man, alleged to have been romantically involved with the woman discovered dead in her home in Otjomuise’s Extension 2 last Monday, made his first appearance in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court on Friday. The accused, Geoffrey Jeff Kasume, a Kenyan national, was formally charged with a count of murder. The charge reads...
Auleria Wakudumo ONAMBANGO – Thousands of mourners gathered to pay their last respects to the late Ondangwa regional control prosecutor Justine Ndapandula Shiweda, who was laid to rest at her family cemetery in Onambango in the Oshana region on Saturday. Shiweda died on 7 February 2026 after sustaining injuries during a violent attack on 17...
Round 17 and 18 are slated for this weekend in the Namibia Premier Football league. Young African’s head coach Marley Ngarizemo has set the tone for a high-stakes weekend, admitting his side faces a stern test against KK Palace and Eeshoke Chula Chula, but insisted they are ready to rise to the occasion. He described...
The Khomas Senior Athletics Championships will take place tomorrow at the Independence Stadium, bringing together close to 150 male and female athletes for a full programme of track and field events. Event organiser Leoni van Rensburg said competitors will battle it out in disciplines including the 5 000 metres (m), hammer throw, high jump, discus,...
KATIMA MULILO – Former DTA lawmaker and Caprivi high treason convict Geoffrey Mwilima died in a Windhoek hospital yesterday, barely a month after his release from prison on remission. Mwilima (70), who had spent years incarcerated in connection with the long-running Caprivi treason case, was released in December 2025 on remission. After his release, Mwilima...
Ombudsman Basilius Dyakugha has delivered a scathing report that shows the Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRA)’s recruitment process was marred by maladministration, lack of transparency and what appears to be unlawful discrimination based on race and ethnicity. The damning report, triggered by a complaint from a rejected job applicant, found that NamRA failed to follow its...
PETRUSFONTEIN – For years, Petrusfontein residents, about 30 kilometres from Khorixas, had no clean drinking water. They drank salty water straight from underground boreholes that was not entirely fit for human consumption.That has now changed. The Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia (EIF), in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform (MAFWLR),...
Police supremo Joseph Shikongo has appealed to his officers to focus on their duties instead of wasting their hard-earned money on Valentine’s Day tomorrow. Leading from the front, Shikongo will not expend any funds on Valentine’s Day. This, he said, is because to him, the day is of no significance. He was speaking during a...
“God said you will die rich.” Those were the purported words Jackson Babi, a self-styled prophet, told Wilbard Shilongo to convince him to hand over his family’s life savings of N$100 000 meant to unchain them from the yoke of poverty. He was promised the Biblical heaven on earth, it seems. Shilongo had no reason...