Rudolf Gaiseb Political commentators say voters in the just-concluded elections sent a strong message to political parties that if they do not pull up their socks, their dominance will continue to evaporate or disappear completely. The 2024 Namibian elections witnessed a fierce fight of political parties trying to remain in Parliament, the fall of some,...
Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan was yesterday among the first leaders to congratulate Namibia’s president-elect, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who won the country’s Presidential elections with 57% of the vote. In her congratulatory message, Hassan said Nandi-Ndaitwah’s victory is historic in nature and one that sets a new transformative tone for SADC and African politics. “I am...
President Nangolo Mbumba yesterday commissioned 149 military officers of the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) during the graduation parade of the 11th regular commissioning course at Osona Military Base near Okahandja. During the ceremony, Mbumba said proper training of military personnel cannot be overemphasised, praising the defence ministry and NDF leadership for ensuring Namibia’s military personnel...
The holiday season poses two problems for the Blood Transfusion Service of Namibia (NamBTS), one being fewer blood donors available to donate, as they go on holidays and travel, shop, and prepare for the upcoming festivities. The other challenge is that blood demand increases with motor vehicle accidents on the roads as people travel to...
WALVIS BAY – An illegal mining operation, being carried out by Xinfeng Investments in the Uis area, has been shut down. This follows mining commissioner Isabella Chirchir’s unannounced visit to the site on 16 November, where she caught them in the act as they were ferrying stockpiles of ore from the mining area, Ringman, about...
National Assembly secretary Lydia Kandetu says Parliament is not liable to backpay members who joined the House two years later, while their seats were occupied by fellow party members. She was responding to a fresh bid by Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) parliamentarians who were sworn-in in 2022. Since their swearing-in, they have been demanding backpay...
BRAVO – Jafet Tame Langman, the headman of Bravo village in Kavango West, says his community yearns for the development promised to them by politicians over the years. He said with a new president set to take the country’s reins on 21 March 2025 and an executive of their own, the time to deliver is...
The Windhoek City Council on Tuesday failed, for the second time, to elect political office bearers due to a lack of quorum. The elections were postponed to Tuesday morning after councillors walked out of a meeting chaired by Magistrate Immanuel Udjombala on Monday afternoon. The walkout followed Udjombala’s refusal to grant the councillors a recess....
Michael Mutonga Liswaniso KATIMA MULILO – Well-known Zambezi resident and retired police commissioner, Bolen Sankwasa is hopeful that more rains will fall in the region in the upcoming weeks and enable communal farmers like him to cultivate the land. Zambezi and other parts of Namibia are drought stricken – a situation that forced President Nangolo...
KEETMANSHOOP – The Namibian Police recorded 4 814 gender-based violence (GBV) cases countrywide during the 2023/24 financial year, Minister of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, Doreen Sioka, has said. In a statement read on her behalf at the launch of the 16 Days of Activism against GBV in the //Kharas region on Monday,...