The amendment of the Combatting of Rape Act of 2000 bill, which is among five other bills relating to sexual and gender-based violence, will only be tabled in the National Assembly in 2021. Justice Minister Yvonne Dausab told the National Assembly at its last seating for 2020 on Thursday afternoon that the bills were already […]

The Basic Income Grant (BIG) Coalition has shot down government’s recent response on the BIG, labeling it as a mere talk show. Economic Justice Trust’s Rinaani Musutua told Eagle FM that while it was a positive move for government to express public opinion on the matter, such opinion has sadly not been transforming into tangible […]

Aminuis Constituency councillors Peter Kazongominja has bemoaned the alleged sidelining of locals when hiring people to work on the Gobabis-Aranos road in the Omaheke Region. Kazongominja told Eagle FM’s Ongoramambo programme yesterday that many locals have been intentionally left out of possible odds jobs on the project that require limited qualifications such as the clearing […]

The amendment of the Combatting of Rape Act of 2000 bill, which is among five other bills relating to sexual and gender-based violence, will only be tabled in the National Assembly in 2021. Justice Minister Yvonne Dausab told the National Assembly at its last seating for 2020 on Thursday afternoon that the bills were already […]

The Gender Minister Doreen Sioka said child marriages in Namibia are most prevalent in the Kavango East and West region. During the launch of a child marriage study this morning Sioka said 39.7% of child marriage among women was reported in Kavango regions. The Kunene follows with 24% of child marriages taking place there while […]

The Air Namibia liquidation case has been postponed to 1 December 2020. The reason for this is for the case hearing regarding the merits of it. The presiding officer was Justice Esi Schimming-Chase. Sisa Namandje represented the Belgian law firm and the respondents were the national airline and the minister of Public Enterprises. They were […]

Health ministry Executive Director, Ben Nangombe has said a number of medications are going to be delivered to hospitals in the second week of November. The Oshakati hospital psychiatric ward runs on a shortage of sedatives for two months now. Reports of violent patients injuring health personnel due to a lack of psychotic drugs to […]

Labour research expert Hebert Jauch, has criticized Namibia Marine Phosphate (NMP) for taking advantage of the Covid-19 induced economic melt-down to make a case for marine phosphate mining in Namibia. This came as the company yesterday held a zoom meeting where it said hopes were high that the project will take off despite backlash and […]

According to the PDM leader, he claims that the Ombudsman is very lenient when it comes to state matters. That he does not want to deal with the issues candidly and would prefer to handle it that way. McHenry Venaani referenced a letter they had addressed towards the Ombudsman about the auditing of the August […]

Ombudsman John Walters has hit back at accusations by PDM that he failed to act against August 26’s failure to table its audited financial statement. PDM’s McHenry Venaani said his party in 2018 wrote to Walters asking him to render a legal opinion on the legality of auditing the defence company. He said Walters never […]