The Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare has announced a delay in payments to disability and old age grant beneficiaries. A notice issued on Thursday by the ministry stated that due to technical difficulties, payments for beneficiaries receiving grants via Nampost have been delayed. Typically, pensioners receive their grants on the first...
Auleria Wakudumo The tourism ministry has raised concern over ongoing violations and disregard of applicable laws as well as the park rules and regulations by visitors to the country’s national parks. Ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda says they have observed significant violations of various issues in accordance with the relevant laws and park regulations. “The use...
WALVIS BAY – The fisheries ministry says they have actively deployed its state-of-the-art patrol vessel, Anna Kakurukaze Mungunda, to curb illegal fishing along Namibia’s northeastern maritime border with Angola. Executive director of the ministry Annely Haiphene said this in response to concerns raised on social media of vessels being spotted in Namibian waters, engaging in...
MARIENTAL – At the age of 19 in 1992, Andoline Luipert started working as Sam Nujoma’s personal waitress at State House and accompanied him on trips to various countries. With his support a few years later, she was able to receive a Commonwealth bursary to study Tourism and Hospitality in Cyprus, a small island located...
Chelva Wells Cabinet has approved the Universal Health Coverage Policy for Namibia, information minister Emma Theofelus announced on Thursday. The policy aims to ensure access to healthcare without financial burden. Cabinet directed the ministries of Works and Transport, Health and Social Services, Finance and Public Enterprises as well as the National Planning Commission to develop...
Kavambo Nujoma Allow me on the onset, as we gather here on this solemn occasion, on behalf of the Nujoma, Kondombolo, and Mushimba families, and indeed on my own behalf, to express our profound gratitude to the Government of the Republic of Namibia for conferring the highest honour of a State Funeral of a National...
The Office of the President has come under scrutiny after the National Assembly Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts flagged irregularities in its financial management for the 2019/20 financial year. The committee’s report, tabled in the National Assembly recently, pointed to a range of financial discrepancies, including unaccounted-for expenditure and unauthorised budget overruns. The report...
The death of Namibia’s Founding President, Sam Nujoma, is a significant loss not only for Namibia, but also for the entire SADC region, the continent of Africa, and beyond, according to Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa. The Zimbabwean leader, while speaking at Nujoma’s memorial service in Windhoek on Friday, said Nujoma was just more than a...
Inspector General of the Namibian Police, Lieutenant General Joseph Shikongo has thanked Namibians for the manner in which they conducted themselves during the mourning period of the late Founding President, Sam Nujoma. Shikongo particularly thanked Namibians for ensuring a smooth and dignified send-off for Nujoma, who passed away on 8 February 2025. According to Shikongo,...
Utoni Nujoma, the eldest son of Founding President Sam Nujoma, has described him as a protective, loving husband and father. He was speaking at the final State memorial service for the late Namibian icon at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek on Friday. “Our father was a loving husband to his dear wife, our mother, madam...