By: Kelvin Chiringa On 27 January 2022, the Democracy Report team said that it requested to view the ‘Register of Members’ Interests’ for the 2021/22 financial year, which led to shocking revelations that 38 members of parliament did not bother to file their interest declarations. The investigating team was provided access to the register on […]
By: Kelvin Chiringa Chief Vipuira Kapuuo’s spokesperson, Wilson Katjita, says that it is an insult that fierce power struggles continue to rock the Herero nation even before the late Paramount Chief Vekuii Rukoro’s tombstone has been unveiled. He said this at the back of the suspension of chief Kapuuo, the OvaHerero Traditional Authority’s (OTA) Chiefs […]
By: Kelvin Chiringa LPM has won a labour case in which its now-resigned founding member, Sixtus Isaaks, accused the party of failing to pay salaries. Isaaks bolted out of the party after accusing it of not being democratic, fomenting factionalism and failing to pay him his dues for work during the previous elections, which saw […]
By: Kelvin Chiringa Urban and rural development minister, Erastus Uutoni, has been accused by the official opposition of being part of the problem of disunity and discord at the Grootfontein municipality, where a fierce power struggle continues to rage on. Venaani now wants Uutoni to stop involving himself with the municipality. Despite a high-stakes meeting […]
By: Kelvin Chiringa The National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor) has scored a major success by being granted an oil exploration and producing licence in Angola. The license has effectively added Namcor to the list of oil producers, while the company will partner with Angola’s Sonangol. Group Sonangol is a parastatal that oversees Angola’s petroleum […]
By: Kelvin Chiringa According to director general Paulus Noa, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) now wants documentary proof of the money recovered from officials that embezzled N$1.2 million from the National Assembly. The ACC said it would be serving National Assembly secretary, Lydia Kandetu, with a summons which will be the first step into what may […]
By: Kelvin Chiringa After securing a first of its kind place at a prestigious international art exhibition festival known as the Venice Biennale in Italy, Namibia’s dream of marketing herself to an outside world emerging out of the pandemic is now in shambles. A host of local artists have now issued a petition in which […]
By: Kelvin Chiringa The battle for the succession of the late OvaHerero Traditional Authority Paramount Chief, Advocate Vekuii Rukoro, ended in defeat for Professor Mutjinde Katjiua yesterday in the High Court. Katjiua has been battling it out with chief Vipuira Kapuuo, who had insisted that according to the customs of the traditional authority, he was […]
By: Kelvin Chiringa The mortuary for the Okahandja State Hospital has not been functioning for almost three months now, forcing residents to pay for private facilities. Two councillors, Akser Aupindi and Charl Coetzee, have written in their private capacities to the regional director of health for the Otjozondjupa region, Gebhard Timotheus, pleading for the situation […]
By: Kelvin Chiringa The Walvis Bay municipality’s continued refusal to make public a final PWC audit report into the missing N$24 million mass housing saga has been met with scorn and anger by some councillors. High placed sources have disclosed that N$6 million was spent on the forensic audit, which found no malfeasance. The source […]