Sea Flower Pelagic Processing is set to lose a whopping N$12 million monthly on account of its failure to secure a fishing quota while plans to expand its workforce to 1 100 have now been shelved. Sea Flower is one of the biggest players in the local fishing sector. Contrary to expanding its labour force, […]

Aakalimo yokonooli oya tokola oku gongela iikulya oku yambidhidha aakalimo yokoshitopokwa sha Erongo. Aakalimo yokonooli oya tokola oku gongela iikulya oku yambidhidha aakalimo yokoshitopokwa sha Erongo Eagle FM etine okwayi moonkundathana nomusamane Klonelius Paulus ngoka eetapo edhilaadhilo lyoku gongela iikulya yoku yambidha aakalimo yo koshitopolwa sha Erongo mboka ya dhengwa konkalo omolwa Covid-19. Aakalimo yokombaye […]

Namibia Institute of Pathology (NIP) Chief Executive Officer Dr David Uirab said there are currently 3 000 samples in the queue to be tested for COVID-19. Dr Uirab this morning said the backlog bettered because at some point it was at 5 000 samples in the queue. “We started testing 25 samples per day and […]

The African continent this week marked the African integration Day commemorations virtually, an annual event which is meant to celebrate, disseminate and galvanise Africans towards a united Africa as envisioned by the continent’s founding fathers. According to a statement released by the African Union yesterday, the commemoration of the Africa Integration Day was held under […]

The signatures on the documents which lawyer Maren de Klerk is said to have signed carry different signatures, defence lawyer Richard Metcalfe told the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court Friday. This came during the cross-examination of the ACC investigator Carl Cloete in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court by former fisheries minister Bernard Esau’s lawyer Richard Metcalfe. Esau and […]

President Hage Geingob must have a patriotic interest to give more teeth and venom to the Anti-Corruption Commission to widen and strengthen its position in investigating the Fish-rot scandal, lawmaker and LPM leader Bernardus Swartbooi has said. Swartbooi has shared suspicions more heads are still to roll in the scandal which has netted in ex-fisheries […]

An ACC investigator, Carl Cloete, said former fisheries minister Bernard Esau knew about all the transactions involving millions from Fishcor. Testifying in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court Friday during Esau and his son-in-law Tamson Hatuikulipi’s bail application, Cloete said the minister knows about a plot at Otjiwarongo. The Otjiwarongo plot came to the focus of the […]

Former Fishcor board member and governor of the Ohangwena region, Usko Nghaamwa, has said that he does not know why people are going after his team over Fishrot allegations when the company had an auditor. Nghaamwa, who said he was “honestly not a corrupt person”, also said he did not want to go deeper into […]

The Windhoek Magistrate’s Court was told Friday that Maren de Klerk, one of the lawyers who allegedly played a pivotal role in the Fishrot scandal is admitted in a psychiatric centre in South Africa. Lawyer Richard Metcalfe who is representing former fisheries minister Bernard Esau and his son-in-law Tamson Hatuikulipi told the court. Metcalfe was […]