“Since our dependency on agriculture is constantly under threat by climate change and frequent droughts whose devastating effects are low productivity and loss of livestock, we have to explore adaptive mechanisms to diversify our economic activities, like the Blue Economy Policy,”
The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) said it is preparing to file for the rescission of a recent court order which compelled the party to reinstate two of its Mariental local authority councillors, who were recalled in February this year.
Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarian Diederik Vries has accused the governing party of using Swapo members of parliament who are descendants of the Ovaherero/Nama to champion the acceptance of the genocide joint declaration.
An investigation into allegations of corruption at August 26 Holding Company, a Namibian Defence Force (NDF) subsidiary, is still ongoing, according to minister Frans Kapofi. The minister was responding to questions posed by Popular Democratic Movement leader McHenry Venaani in the National Assembly last week.
The Zambezi Regional Council and Botswana’s Chobe district council have been urged to enter into a twinning agreement which will, among others, enhance cooperation between the two neighbouring countries, international relations minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told parliament last week.
An attempt by a murder convict to appeal his 20-year sentence in the Supreme Court was shot down by the High Court on Friday. High Court Judge Eileen Rakow dismissed the application by Jan Moses Uamunika (50) for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Commissioner of refugees Likius Valombola will have to wait for three more weeks to hear the court’s ruling in his murder case. High Court Judge Claudia Claasen was initially scheduled to give the court’s ruling on Friday, but said it was not ready.
Namibia and South Africa are among nations that will, effective today, be removed from the United Kingdom’s red list, a classification of high-risk countries which was implemented in an attempt to contain the Covid-19.
Police chief Sebastian Ndeitunga has accused some “rotten apples” within the force of abetting the smuggling of illegal objects into police cells. According to Ndeitunga, no matter how often the police intensify efforts to make sure that no illegal objects are sneaked into police cells, dangerous items still find their way inside cells. He said cell phones, several sharp objects and drugs were co
“For the country’s economy to open up again and grow lies totally in our hands,” said !Gawaxab during a public lecture at the weekend at Keetmanshoop. Despite government ensuring wider access to Covid-19 vaccines, a considerable number of Namibians are still vaccine-hesitant, while uptake has also been affected by individuals spreading misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines.