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In their thoughtful book, ‘An Introduction to Politics’ Garner, Ferdinand and Lawson (2020), eloquently imply that one of the paradoxes about democracies is that on the one hand there is near unanimity on the indispensability of political parties. 

It is with a heavy heart that I write about my kamentu (cousin), the late Gideon Nestor Mufenda who departed this earth a few days ago. He was my cousin and we are of the lion totem. 

A Gobabis resident who was released on parole after a murder conviction in 2008, was convicted of a similar crime in the Windhoek High Court on Friday. 

Although wild ducks are attractive and sometimes entertaining birds, the Kalimbeza rice project sees them as a menace as they destroy young rice yields. 

Indian High commissioner to Namibia Prashant Agrawal said a defining feature for Namibia and India is confronting and overcoming challenges that set precedents on the relations and cooperation between the two states.

A pensioner committed suicide by shooting himself in the head on Saturday at Ou’s village west of Nkurenkuru, while a five-year-old girl burned to death in the Ohangwena region. 

Namibia’s national oil storage facility, one of government’s biggest investment projects, hogged the headlines for a massive escalation of the cost of construction.

The Namibia University of Science and Technology has claimed Professor Frednard Gideon, who was one of the candidates interviewed for the NUST vice chancellor position, was untruthful during his public presentation. 

A woman was arrested on Saturday after she allegedly killed her one-year-old daughter in January this year at Ondjindja village in the Omusati region.

A pressure group from the Zambezi region says the Bwabwata National Park should remain untouched and undivided to benefit the tourism sector by empowering marginalised groups who have lived in the area since time immemorial.