Taxi owners were identified as primary consumers of smuggled fuel, thereby resulting in serious economic and security implications for the country. These sentiments were shared last week by Carlo McLeod, deputy director of regulation, compliance and economics in the energy ministry.
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Opinion – Accelerating, capacitating women-owned micro enterprises
Community empowerment in its totality has immense and great prospects to facilitate real-time, sustainable impactful development for many in communities, especially for women-owned micro-enterprises.
Opinion – Kleptomania and compromised politics
Namibia has stepped into an unprecedented scale of corruption. On a weekly basis, we see disturbing headlines – from theft, murder, suicide, lawsuits and entitlement.
State concedes failing to prove murder case
State Advocate Timo Itula on Friday conceded that the State did not prove the two men on trial for the murder and robbery of an elderly Swakopmund couple killed Siegfried.
Namdia unveils rare N$26 million diamond
A rare Namibian diamond will soon be showcased around the world to bring further prominence to the country’s diamonds.
Zambezi cattle theft continues unabated
There appears to be no light at the end of the tunnel for communal farmers in the Zambezi region, as they continue to lose their livestock at the hands of progressively ferocious cattle rustlers, mainly from Zambia, who continue to cross borders illegally to steal cattle in Namibia.
Chiefs vow intensified fight against Germany
Various Ovaherero and Ovambanderu chiefs vowed on Friday to step up their fight against Germany by appealing for assistance from African nations as well as well-meaning progressive international solidarity groups.
Swakopmund man saves woman from burning shack
A Swakopmund resident was hailed a hero after he saved a young woman from a burning shack on Wednesday.
NSFAF’s N$300m haunted house…building allegedly constructed on a whim
The multi-million-dollar state-of-the-art Namibia Financial Assistance Fund headquarters in Eros, an affluent Windhoek suburb, has no owner.
Age is just a number
*Nandi-Ndaitwah says she still has the capacity to lead
*labels corruption as treason
*respects Geingob’s decision to not endorse her