2023-02-23Edward Mumbuu There is general consensus across opposition parties that the increment of the elderly pension grants by N$100 is insignificant in the face of hardships confronting them, some branding it “an insult”. View more
2023-02-28Edward Mumbuu Namibiab ǁKhaubas ǀHûs ge !âubasensa !oa ǀgamǁî kurib !aroma ǁkhawa ǀnîkhamikō !gôab ǁkhākhāsenaona nî ǂgaikhâi, ǁîs di sîsenaon !gôabas ra ǀgaiǀgai ǂgao amaga, tib ge New Eraba ge ǂanǂui. View more
2023-03-01Edward Mumbuu A four-pillar proposal to address the Windhoek management committee leadership impasse crumbled like a sand-made castle on Tuesday, after the councillors failed to reach consensus. View more
2023-03-01Edward Mumbuu While its leader McHenry Venaani continues singing from the transparency and accountability hymn book, some senior figures in Namibia’s second largest political party lament being in the dark about its finances. View more
2023-03-02Edward Mumbuu Six Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarians who were sworn in last year, are demanding backpay from the National Assembly, as they became duly elected members of the House in 2019. View more
2023-03-08Edward Mumbuu Auditor general Junias Kandjeke found most youth centres across the country in a dilapidated state mainly due to lack of funds, a situation that poses serious health and safety risks for students. View more
2023-03-08Edward Mumbuu Political parties represented in the National Assembly have received no less than N$608 million from Treasury since 2019 – through parliamentary funding. These public monies are hardly accounted for, New Era has been established. View more
2023-03-10Edward Mumbuu Dubbed ‘Economic Revival and Caring for the Poor’, the N$84.6 billion 2023-2024 budget has drawn the ire of some and brought joy to others, with some parliamentarians asking President Hage Geingob to remove “deadwood” ministers from his Cabinet if achieving meaningful results is his goal. View more
2023-03-15Edward Mumbuu All eyes will be on President Hage Geingob tomorrow when he delivers his penultimate State of the Nation Address, with many pondering how he intends to address the country’s unemployment quagmire, which has reached crisis proportions. View more
2023-03-16Edward Mumbuu Outgoing TransNamib CEO Johny Smith has washed his hands off and absolved himself of any wrongdoing during his troubled tenure at anentity now on the brink of collapse. View more
2023-03-17Edward Mumbuu The United Kingdom is in the process of changing Namibia’s status due to the purported abuse of its asylum and other immigration laws, New Era has been reliably informed. View more
2023-03-17Edward Mumbuu A leaked board resolution shows that TransNamib has offered its want-away CEO Johny Smith a N$2.4 million salary to remain at the cash-strapped rail entity for another five years. View more
2023-03-17Edward Mumbuu This week, New Era’s Edward Mumbuu sat down with Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi, who pulled no punches when he confronted questions on the party’s achievements, internal chaos, ties to his former political home, how the country’s resources can benefit its citizen and coalition politics as the country gears towards the 2024 showdown: View more
2023-03-23Edward Mumbuu Accounting continues to be a thorn in the flesh of most local authorities that are seemingly unable to account for public resources under their care, recently submitted audit reports show. View more
2023-03-24Edward Mumbuu The Namibia Revenue Agency has surpassed its revenue-collection target by about N$2 billion, a good month before the financial year comes to a close. View more
2023-03-30Edward Mumbuu With less than three months left before Government Institutions Pension Fund CEO David Nuyoma retires, the race to replace him is climaxing. View more
2023-03-31Edward Mumbuu Both the Namibia Press Agency and New Era Publication Corporation have heaped praise on the government for a combined budgetary allocation of N$54.5 million for this financial year. View more
2023-03-31Edward Mumbuu Namibia’s anti-graft body has issued a summons for National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia boss Immanuel Mulunga to provide it with documentary evidence relating to alleged irregularities around the payment of N$100 million. View more
2023-04-03Edward Mumbuu Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi has claimed finely-crafted manifestos will not decide the outcome of the 2024 general election. View more
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