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Residents of the //Kharas region reacted with shock and disbelieve at the seemingly senseless killing of a farmworker, Edmund Mutete from Area 7, Lὓderitz who has been assaulted and left to die in the field.

Namibia over the weekend surpassed the 4 000 Covid-19 death mark, showing an indication the pandemic is still claiming lives, even though numbers of fatalities have decreased and regulations have been relaxed.

Subsequent to the theft of some national examination papers last year, the education ministry had to pull additional resources to the cost of over N$15 million to re-run the examinations and to ensure timely release of results as initially planned.

A 40-year-old Angolan national was allegedly stabbed to death with a knife on Friday for allegedly making noise. 

Swapo party secretary general Sophia Shaningwa urged the party’s think tank to navigate the body into becoming the only credible option for voters.

Service delivery will remain a challenge unless regional and local authorities recommit themselves and develop policies and programmes that expressly reject corruption and all forms of unethical conduct.

My cousin’s memorial service in December brought me back to my childhood church in Lüderitz, the church he had joined in 1978.

Namibia again celebrated its Constitution Day on 9 February, as it does every year since 1990, clocking 32 years of nationhood.

​​​​​​​A lot of us do not understand intersecting oppressions and therefore reason as if structural oppression occurs in isolation; as long as we experience some form of privilege, we disregard the oppression of individuals who may be facing multiple forms of layered violence.

After the 1884 Berlin Conference that self-awarded territory of present-day Namibia to Germany, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck’s approach was that German companies with private capital must take up the bountiful opportunities in the colonies.