By: Justicia Shipena High Court Judge Naomi Shivute says Jan Gemeng and Tjaava Ebson, who were found guilty of raping a woman in the district of Gobabis in June 2014, have no respect for women. Shivute said this upon sentencing the two to 18 years imprisonment each in the Windhoek High Court on Tuesday. According […]

By: Justicia Shipena Cost pressures will make Namibian hotels more expensive compared to South Africa. This was revealed in a report by Simonis Storm on hospitality statistics for March 2022. According to the report, an industry expert says hotels in Namibia are 23 per cent more expensive than Cape Town or Johannesburg. “Cost pressures will […]

By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus For the past 14 months, local electricity generation (Nampower and Independent Power Producers) have struggled to produce 100 000MWh monthly. The average local monthly generation has been around 72 265,3 MWh while monthly imports are 266 849,7MWh. As a result, it is worsening the country’s electricity import/dependence- the Electricity Sectoral Reports as […]

Staff Writer When the State of Emergency was declared two years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic triggered a wave of severe financial losses suffered by Namibian businesses. These losses greatly impacted Old Mutual Namibia Short-Term Insurance customers, who had to navigate challenging times to sustain the livelihoods of their employees. During these difficult and unusual times, […]

Staff Writer The National Federation of People with Disabilities in Namibia (NFPDN) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), hosted a media awareness event. The aim is to raise awareness through the media about the importance of collecting disaggregated and gender-specific data on people with disabilities. The event was hosted at Hotel Thüringhof with […]

By: Ludorf Iyambo Ovaherero Traditional Authority (OTA) says the urban and rural development minister, Erastus Uutoni has external forces trying to insinuate and hijack its leadership. The authority said this on Monday upon handing over a petition to the urban and rural development ministry in Windhoek. According to them, Uutoni would use his external forces […]

By: Eba Kandovazu The anti-graft agency’s boss Paulus Noa has thanked National Assembly Secretary Lydia Kandetu for blocking the pensions of three former employees who are accused of stealing over N$ 1.2 million from parliament. The employees, who have since left their jobs, have left parliament with accusations of covering up corruption by failing to […]

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: Justicia Shipena The prosecutor general’s office has referred the case in which British farm owner Harvey Boulter faces a murder charge to the Windhoek High Court. The 53-year-old Boulter is charged in connection with a fatal shooting in the Outjo district nearly a year ago. Boulter, accused of murdering his farm manager, Gerhard van […]

By: Justicia Shipena Three Grootfontein councillors pulled out of a meeting held by the council amidst the drama at the municipality. This follows the town’s troubled chief executive officer (CEO) Kisco Sinvula’s return to office last week, which erupted into chaos. According to the chairperson of the management committee, Elizabeth Kastoor, the three say Acting […]