KEETMANSHOOP – The Keetmanshoop police station in town has been temporarily closed for 48 hours since Tuesday afternoon following the visit of a positive tested Covid-19 public member at the facility. According to the //Kharas regional commander, Commissioner David Indongo, the person has been admitted at the Keetmanshoop hospital after presenting symptoms of the coronavirus. “He...
OMUTHIYA – Popular Democratic Movement town councillor at Tsumeb Daniel Venaani claims the party’s advice and input towards the smooth and timely recruitment of a substantive CEO for the local municipality is being ignored by the majority members of the council who are from the ruling party. He said politics has taken centre stage in...
KEETMANSHOOP – Government has ordered an investigation into the abandoned Fonteintjie fish farm project in the //Kharas region, which was supposed to be completed more than three years ago. Works minister John Mutorwa, who was part of a high-level government delegation that visited the project recently, said it was regrettable that authorities now have to...
KEETMANSHOOP – //Kharas regional Swapo coordinator Mattheus Mumbala has called on party members to accept their fate if not elected to stand as candidates for the upcoming regional council and local authority elections. Namibians will go to the polls in November this year to elect new local authority and regional councillors. “This is the year...
OMUTHIYA – Children from Tsumeb’s Kuvukiland informal settlement on Tuesday morning stumbled upon a half-naked and lifeless body of a 25-year-old woman. The victim was identified as Beauty Narigus. She was allegedly stoned to death, according to the police. One suspect has so far been arrested in connection with the murder. According to Oshikoto regional...
Acting Nudo youth league’s secretary Veparura Kandirikirira has urged young members in the party to step to the challenge by contesting for positions within the party to enable them to contest as councillors in upcoming elections. He said this while briefing the media on the outcome of the party’s youth league national executive committee meeting held...
The Anti-Corruption Commission of Namibia has announced that the country has embarked on the post-project evaluation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy of 2016-2019 and Action Plan (NACS). In a media statement on Tuesday, the commission said that the evaluation will seek to determine progress achieved so far and the extent to which the strategic objectives...
KEETMANSHOOP –//Kharas governor Aletha Frederick says the region is committed to ensuring quality education and lifelong learning for all its inhabitants. “Education is the indispensable variable for //Kharas region’s social progression and economic development,” said the governor during her maiden state of the region address recently. She said the region has made significant strides to...
The Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) has projected to collect only around N$8 million in levies due to the severe impact of the Covid-19, which has seen a number of hospitality and travel businesses closing shop. To make matters worse, NTB experienced a severe budget cut during this financial year, which is hampering its marketing efforts...
The Namibian government has maintained that the current offer for reparations over the 1904-1908 Ovaherero-Nama genocide by their German counterparts remains unacceptable. The Presidency yesterday announced that Geingob has received a status report from special envoy Zed Ngavirue. Ngavirue has been heading government negotiations on genocide between Namibia and Germany since 2015. Between 2015 and...