By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus Two emerging trends from commercial banks statistics are showing that they are reducing their risk uptake by lending less and shifting money into financial assets. While businesses and households shy away from productive borrowing, opting short term overdrafts despite low rates. Observed Simonis Storm on their analysis of the money and banking […]

By: Wonder Guchu The Hambukushu Traditional Authority has found seven people guilty for the death of a Unam student whose body was found floating in the Kavango River in June this year. The Unam student, Mukuve Fredrick Kanyanga (22), went missing on 18 June 2021 and his body was found on 21 June 2021 in […]

If you see a fat insect, just know that it was not born fat. Most probably, it grew fat because it eats other insects. And that is how life is like. It gets along by eating others. Like what the professor in the Bollywood comedy Viru Sahastrabudhhe aka Virus says – Life begins with murder. […]

By: Wonder Guchu The grave of a boy who was buried on 11 August 2021 at Katima Mulilo’s Daily cemetery on the outskirts of the town was dug up and the coffin left lying in the open on Thursday night. The boy has been identified as Nyambe Aldo Munyakwavo. News of the violation of Aldo’s […]

By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus Many deem the funding gap at a start-up level to be not well documented, an update from the Sanlam Bridge Programme indicated that they have received 258 applications. Despite massive interest in the programme, it managed only to award seed capital, mentorship to five entrepreneurial ideas, concepts, and startups to enable their […]

By: Andrew Kathindi Businessman Laban Kandume has denied allegations that his company Sky Eye Hospitality and Tours was given a 20-year concession for transport at Sossusvlei due to relationship with tourism minister, Pohamba Shifeta. Quizzed on whether Kandume, who hails from the same northern constituency as Shifeta, had engaged with the minister prior to his […]

By: Kelvin Chiringa Newly appointed Ombudsman Basilius Dyakugha has said that he is filling big shoes, as he takes over from advocate John Walters. Dyakugha came out successful in a public interview conducted by a panel made up of the chief justice, the attorney general and labour expert, Vicky Ya Toivo. He was interviewed alongside […]

By: Dwight Links A Divundu family says they cannot do anything to the girl (15) who is said to have suffocated their one-year-old child to death. The incident where Ndara Quinton Makanga was suffocated to death happened on Wednesday this week. It happened at Shadimbungu village about 10km from Divundu in Kavango East. Divundu police […]

By: Andrew Kathindi President Hage Geingob has defended a constitutional prerogative to appoint regional governors, which has long been critiqued. Opposition parties and political commentators have previously said that the system to appoint governors should come under review in order to make them answerable to those they govern. “It was felt for two reasons that […]

By: Kelvin Chiringa Tamson Hatuikulipi’s wife, Ndapandula, says she is concerned that her assets are subject to a restraint order although there is no causal link between them and the allegations her husband is facing. Ndapandula is the daughter of the former fisheries minister, Bernhardt Esau. Her husband is one of those currently in custody […]