By: Annakleta Haikera Pauline Wakudumo, a former student from Noordgrens Secondary School in the Kavango East region, says a popular teacher and sports coach, Henk Bronner, raped her when she was only 13 years old. According to Wakudumo, Bronner, who still coaches the girls’ volleyball and athletics teams at Noordgrens Secondary School, would touch underage […]

By: Kelvin Chiringa The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and the Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu) seem to be mending relations after a fight over the union’s continued representation of workers. The national broadcaster’s director-general, Stanley Similo, has written to Napwu’s general-secretary, Petros Nevonga, about his move to retract a notice of 21 June 2021 about […]

By: Kelvin Tjiringa Like meeting a black man wielding a primed grenade in a “Whites Only” lavatory. This is the very immediate impression Gwen Lister’s memoir, Comrade Editor, creates to the curious reader who finds fascination with the history behind the history of the victors. The book’s title is saturated with strong third world socialist […]

Staff Writer The Swapo Party Women’s Council has not held its congress to elect new members – more than one month after they failed to meet on 7 December 2021. According to the Swapo constitution, the women’s council was supposed to meet on 7 December 2021 to elect a secretary, a deputy secretary, members of […]

One of the Fishrot accused Ricardo Gustavo says he has not paid his lawyers for services rendered since January 2020 because of the asset restraint order. Gustavo’s assets and his co-accused – former fisheries minister Bernhard Esau, former justice minister Sacky Shanghala, former Investec boss James Hatuikulipi and his cousin Tamson and Pius Mwatelulo – […]

By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus The finance ministry has confirmed that as part of the infrastructure grants from the Chinese government, a Chinese contractor has to do the job under Namibia procurement rules. There has been an outcry from the construction sector and many industry sympathisers that all the work-related tenders are just being awarded to Chinese […]

By: Justicia Shipena  Former justice minister and fishrot accused Sacky Shanghala sought out his co-accused James Hatuikulipi for a job offer at Fishcor.  This was revealed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) lead investigator Andreas Kanyangela during the bail hearing for the six main Fishrot accused in the Windhoek High Court on Thursday.  According to Kanyangela, […]

By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus/ Kelvin Chiringa  After a temporary respite in January, Tom Alweendo and his team are back this time to tell all motorists, consumers, and fuel-driven industries to prepare extra cents per litre come 2 February 2021. This is after the per barrel price for crude oil in the international market increased by more […]

By: Kelvin Chiringa/Ludorf Iyambo Latest tourism arrival statistics from the Hospitality Association of Namibia (HAN) shows that a total of 63,555 international passengers arrived at Hosea Kutako International Airport (HKIA) during 2021, compared to 46,342 in 2020 and 215,155. HAN has said that December 2021 recorded 4,844 international arrivals, compared to 10,393 in the prior […]

  By: Justicia Shipena Anti-corpution commission lead investigator Andreas Kanyangela told the court that documents in which Tundavala Invest Limited, a company owned by fishrot accused James Hatuikulipi was paid million were sourced from a device linked to his co-accused Ricardo Gustavo. Tundavala is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Kanyangela  was testifying as a […]