Search in the website:

News / Page 386

Esau, Tamson Hatuikulipi to approach High Court for bail appeal

9 August 2020

Fishrot-accused former fisheries minister Bernard Esau together with son-in-law Tamson Hatuikulipi still have some fight left in them and will approach the Windhoek High Court regarding their bail application. The Windhoek Magistrate’s Court denied Esau and Hatuikulipi bail on 22 July 2020. Magistrate Duard Kesslau argued that the two have serious cases. They are being charged […]

Read More

Govt to auction fishing quotas for Covid-19 emergency

8 August 2020

The government is in the process of auctioning its objective fish quota to the highest bidder because it needs financial resources on an emergency basis to mitigate the effects of Covid-19. Fisheries minister Dr Albert Kawana said this in a letter dated 7 August and addressed to Marti Amukwa, the chairperson of the Confederation of […]

Read More

Cyber security strategy to protect citizens – Links

7 August 2020

  The development of a cybersecurity strategy will protect Namibian citizens from the growing online threats, said Institute for Public Policy Research associate researcher Frederico Links on Friday. Information Minister Peya Mushelenga announced on Thursday that the cabinet instructed his ministry to develop a cybersecurity strategy as well as an awareness plan. Links said the […]

Read More

Katima cuts water to force residents off land

7 August 2020

Residents of the Lwanyanda informal settlement have claimed that water has been cut for them by the town council for refusing to move to Nova after the authorities claimed that they are illegally settled. They have said they are collecting water from wells which are not clean enough while children are being affected in the […]

Read More

Covid-19 scuttles part of coastal rail project

7 August 2020

The Walvis-bay to Arandis rail project is yet to start long after the tender was granted to a foreign contractor, the director of rail infrastructure management at the works and transport ministry Robert Kalomho. Ahead of the granting of the tenders on this project, it was understood that about 30% these projects would be funded […]

Read More

Yakanitha omaliko gawo momulilo

7 August 2020

Konyala aantu 12 mboka ya thigwa pomutenya koshiponga shomulilo komudhingoloko gomalukalwa goAmerica modolopa ya Helao Nafidi kOshikango moshitopolwa Ohangwena, otaya pula omayambidhidho moshigwana. Eagle FM etine oya talelepo ongundu yaagundjuka, mboka ya pula aasamaria aanamutima henda yeya kwathele moshinima shika. “Otatu pumbwa mayambidhidho gakehe, okuza kiikulya, iizalomwa niikumbatha molwaashoka oombashu dhetu odha pyapo thilu otwa […]

Read More

Namibia to abide by SADC protocols on Zimbabwe

6 August 2020

International relation ministry said that they will abide by SADC’s position with regards to the current situation in Zimbabwe. In a statement issued and signed by the ministry’s acting executive secretary, Rebecca Iyambo, the ministry’s position is that Namibia respects the established SADC institutions, including the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation, which […]

Read More

Zimbabwe’s government says no one has been abducted

6 August 2020

The Zimbabwean government says there is no crisis in that country, and no one has been abducted. The authorities in the southern African country have also called on other leaders in the region not to lose perspective on the fact that Zimbabwe has for long suffered efforts to destabilise it by external forces that have […]

Read More

Harambee Prosperity Plan II in the pipeline

6 August 2020

A second version of the Harambee Prosperity Plan is expected to be launched in the final tenure of President Hage Geingob with a formulation meeting having been held this week. This week’s meeting was attended by former Presidential economic advisor Dr John Steytler, economist Klaus Schade, Dr Inge Zaamwani, Dr Martin Mwinga and Jason Kasuto […]

Read More

Road fund says they have no say on Windhoek roads

6 August 2020

Despite saying that they need to see the value for the money being given to the City of Windhoek, the Road Fund Administration’s boss Ali Ipinge said his institution has no say on which roads ought to be maintained within Local Authority areas. “In terms of our mandate, it speaks to the need to contribute […]

Read More

Load more