Malnutrition and the impact on educational outcomes are just some of the risks associated with the closure of early childhood development centres across Namibia. Following the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic as a national disaster, the Namibian government announced that early childhood development (ECD) centres would be shut down from early March. Hilma Weber, a […]

A 20-year-old man was admitted to the Swakopmund State Hospital Tuesday after sustaining burns while he was allegedly trying to steal cables. Erongo police said the cables belonged to ErongoRed base station that is behind NamWater at the coastal town. Police community affairs commander Ileni Shapumba said workers at ErongoRed discovered that there were cables […]

Defence minister Rear-Admiral Peter Hafeni Vilho said there’s a deliberate attempt to use the current economic and health crisis to drive a wedge between the nation and the security forces. Vilho said this in parliament Wednesday while motivating his ministry’s budgetary allocation in the National Assembly this afternoon. During the 2019/2020 budget debate, former defence […]

Landless People’s Movement’s leader, Bernardus Swartbooi has expressed regret and proffered an apology for telling labour minister Utoni Nujoma that he was “demoted like a dog”. Both politicians, who at one time steered the land reform ministry as minister and deputy minister before they fell out of each other’s favour, squared off in parliament this […]

The management of a Walvis Bay school, Hillside Christian College, has distanced themselves from the racist comments made by a teacher who said that the Bible is not written for blacks. Corien Steenkamp, a Grade 2 assistant teacher at the school posted on her social media saying that she wonders if there would be so […]

The finance ministry said they will prioritise payment to residents of Erongo region because they are now in lockdown. President Hage Geingob announced Monday that the Erongo region was going under lockdown because those in Walvis Bay did not adhere to the one-week lockdown and because the region had recorded 8 cases so far. The […]

Deputy prime minister and international relations minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said Monday that the 78% her ministry received for 2020/2021 is for the foreign missions programmes  Nandi-Ndaitwah said this during her budget motivation speech for her ministry. The ministry was allocated N$1 010 617 000 under Vote seven of the 2020/2021 budget.  This percentage retranslated into N$784,622,278.00 (Seven […]

A few weeks after resuming international charter flights and a few days after President Hage Geingob said Air Namibia must be liquidated, the national airline announced that it was grounding its fleet indefinitely. The airline announced the decision on Monday on its twitter. The message read: Air Namibia wishes to inform the flying public that all […]

The Swapo Party is planning to amend its constitution and make it difficult for any member to run as an independent candidate ahead of the November regional councils elections. Apart from amending the constitution, the ruling party that suffered a massive loss during the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections will hold a meeting to […]