The rift within the Grootfontein municipality has widened after the local authority this week slapped its finance executive Ileni Hainghumbi with charges of misconduct and insubordination. Hainghumbi said he was unfazed over the charges. The municipality on Wednesday issued a statement in which it dispelled alleged social media posts of Hainghumbi in which he disputed...
The country’s Covid-19 death toll continues to rise, with health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula yesterday announcing that five more people have succumbed to the deadly virus. This brings the country’s death toll to 27. Two deaths were reported at both Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, while Windhoek registered one. Shangula also announced 138 new positive cases,...
The man at the helm of the biggest local listing on the Namibia Stock Exchange (NSX), Vetumbuavi Mungunda, has confirmed his resignation and will leave Standard Bank Namibia (SBN) Holdings Group with effect from 1 May 2021. This advance notice gives the boards of SBN Holdings and Standard Bank Namibia just shy of 10 months...
Pick n Pay Namibia yesterday announced it has retrenched 229 employees, citing unfavourable trading conditions. Pick n Pay had put the redundancy plan on ice in June after entering into negotiations with the Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau). In a memo on Tuesday, Pick n Pay Namibia managing director Graeme Mouton informed employees...
OTJIWARONGO – A 23-year-old man linked to the production of counterfeit banknotes at Otjiwarongo was on Wednesday denied bail when he appeared in the magistrate’s court. Knowledge Kasiringua was arrested at Otjiwarongo on Monday and appeared before Otjiwarongo magistrate Yvette Fredericks. Kasiringua appeared on charges of possession and participating in the printing of counterfeit banknotes...
WALVIS BAY – A Walvis Bay family is reeling in shock after their nine-year-old girl took her life on Wednesday evening by hanging herself with a nightgown belt. She was identified as Martha Ndapona Tobias. Crime investigations coordinator for the Erongo region, Deputy Commissioner Erastus Iikuyu yesterday said Tobias was found by her elder sister...
WALVIS BAY – A flamboyant pastor from Walvis Bay and his co-accused were denied bail yesterday during their first court appearance in the Walvis Bay Magistrate’s Court. The duo appeared in court after being arrested for allegedly swindling N$800 000 from five women through scams. Kaetanus Shilimela nicknamed ‘Atomic Bomb’ and Showa Lukas also known...
The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) and the National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) yesterday criticised the ongoing genocide negotiations between Namibia and the German government, asking for the inclusion of people in the diaspora, especially those in Botswana and South Africa. Their criticism follows Monday’s update by Namibia special envoy on genocide Zed Ngavirue to President Hage...
WALVIS BAY – Fisheries minister Albert Kawana says the fish quotas the government intends to auction off are not that significant and will not have an effect on the fishing industry. Kawana had earlier said that auctioning off quotas was the only means to speedily get foreign exchange to mitigate the costs of the effects...
The liquidators of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank and Zimbabwean minority shareholders are in for a two-month wait for a ruling in which the court will decide if the bank’s minority shareholders are liable for the bank’s closure in 2017. High Court acting Judge Collins Parker reserved judgement yesterday after a virtual hearing,...