National

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. 

Hyphen Hydrogen Energy has said their socio-economic development framework holds the potential to directly contribute to the upliftment and economic advancement of Namibians.   

Landless People’s Movement (LPM) candidate for the upcoming Keetmanshoop rural constituency by-elections Willem Labuschagne said, if elected, he has no aspirations for fame and status, but will instead strive to uplift the local community from unemployment and poverty.

The burials of five suspected armed robbers who were killed during a fire exchange between them and police officers revealed they are survived by 18 children in total and one on the way. 

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.