Rudolf Gaiseb The education ministry will officially release the 2025 October/November Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary (NSSCO) and Advanced Subsidiary (AS) national examination results tomorrow. The NSSCO and AS results for both full-time and part-time candidates will be accessible from 12h15 on the same day via the ministry’s website and Short Message Service (SMS) platforms....
Adolf Kaure Namib Mills’ workers will start striking today, secretary general of the Namibia Revolutionary Transport and Manufacturing Union (Naretu), Petersen Kambinda, has confirmed. This comes after 683 out of 710 employees voted to strike last Thursday. “This demonstrates a clear fed-up position by employees. On Monday from 07h00, the union and our members...
IIKOKOLA – Thousands of mourners gathered to pay their last respects to Sem Pendapala Nepando, who was laid to rest at Onamutene cemetery on Saturday. Nepando died on 2 January 2026 after he was shot and killed during a community meeting over a land dispute at Iikokola village in the Oshikoto region. The headman of...
Grootfontein, one of the Otjozondjupa region’s most dense urban centres with a population of almost 30 000 inhabitants, is grappling with rising cases of cholera outbreak, with the latest figures showing a total of 22 confirmed cases. The region’s health director, Gerbhado Timotheus, confirmed that from the latest 83 samples tested, 22 returned positive and...
Kazara Ndovazu OROKAPARE – If a day is a very long time in politics, then five years is eternity. Between 2020 and 2025, the political career of former journalist and erstwhile Opuwo Urban constituency councillor Weich Mupya appeared all but over following his failure to retain the position. However, as is the case with all...
KATIMA MULILO – Former Katima Mulilo Town Council CEO Charles Nawa Nawa was laid to rest on Friday at his maternal home village of Luhonono (Schuckmannsburg) in Kabbe North constituency of the Zambezi region. Nawa died last week Friday in a Windhoek hospital at the age of 57 (not 50 as earlier reported). Speaking at...
GOBABIS−Chief Nguvauva Nguvauva of the Ovambanderu people in Botswana’s Toromoja district will be laid to rest on Saturday at Toromoja Botswana. Nguvauva (89) well known as Kgosi Nguvauva II by the Batswana, died on 29 December 2025 at his homestead in Toromoja.Nguvauva was the grandson of Chief Nicodemus Hiatuvao Nguvauva, the revered leader who guided...
Amongst his top priorities, new councillor for Kapako Linyando Kupembona has vowed to tackle statelessness amongst the constituency’s inhabitants, while prioritising youth empowerment projects. Kupembona shared his plans in an interview with this publication last week, saying youth unemployment remains one of the most pressing challenges facing the constituency. “Youth unemployment is a serious issue...
Matheus David Reverend Paul Muha does not describe his work as a job but a calling that follows him from university campuses to township homes, from counselling rooms to the quiet struggles people carry within themselves. He was recently transferred to Emmanuel Lutheran Parish in Windhoek. Reverend Muha brings with him nearly 23 years of...
RUNDU – Ndonga Linena constituency councillor Anselm Marungu says going to the National Council will not affect his work in the constituency. High on his agenda, Marungu said, is fighting hunger and poverty through agricultural empowerment. Marungu, in an exclusive interview with New Era, said he has begun his engagements with inhabitants of the constituency....