The office of the Ombudsman has received fewer complaints during the lockdown and Advocate John Walters said the decrease is as a result of the movement restrictions.  The Ombudsman received 56 complaints of which 27 are related to police brutality and correctional services as well as maladministration.  Advocate Walters pointed out a particular complaint that […]

Breyten Breytenbach We need to see Africa as it is – in all its brutality, excesses, riches, horror, humiliation, poverty, despair, squalor, posturing and display, beauty, and creativeness. And this is a function of the imagination because we must make leaps in order to accommodate, in a useful fashion, the complexity of the continent and […]

The story about President Hage Geingob saving N$200m when he suspended the purchase of cars for ministers and others was misunderstood. It is not about saving N$200m, but it about wasting it on cars under the circumstances. Many people hailed this move because it appears as if this is a favour done on hapless people […]

Caught in-between… Ester Muinjague The Ovaherero Traditional Authority says Bob Kandetu and former Nudo MP Arnold Tjihuiko connived with President Hage Geingob’s administration to capture the former chairperson of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation Ester Muinjangue to accept the deputy minister’s position. Muinjangue, who is also the president of Nudo party, was appointed by Geingob as […]

It is dismaying and discouraging that most people are focusing on post-Covid-19 while ignoring now. What if there is not post-Covid-19? Will life stop while we wait for the next two years for Covid-19 to dissipate? I mean, the influenza pandemic of 1918 lasted for more than a year during which it killed about 50 […]

The Namibian police have arrested two men aged 22 and 23 years old at Uis in connection with the rape of a 12-year-old girl. In the incident that happened at Uis, it is alleged that the two men gang-raped the young girl between Friday and Saturday. The suspects were expected to make their first court […]

Some ICT companies are charging as much as N$20 000 per day to put parliament online, National Assembly spokesperson David Nahogandja has said. The National Assembly has been affected by Covid-19 and this time the tabling of the national budget will not be attended by the public while some members of the house will be […]

The Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) Council has appointed Dr Andrew Niikondo as the acting vice-chancellor. Dr Niikondo’s appointment came after the expiry of Morne Du Toit’s acting term on 18 May 2020. Nust has had no substantive vice-chancellor after the retirement of Tjama Tjivikua in March 2019. Tjivikua who was the rector […]

The National Assembly that was supposed to start sitting on Tuesday 19 May 2020 is now expected to do so on 25 May 2020. The speaker, Professor Peter Katjavivi said they postponed the resumption of parliament after the finance minister Ipumbu Shiimi requested them to do so. Shiimi is expected to table the delayed 2020/21 […]

NWR Acting Managing Director Dr Matthias Ngwangwama Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) said one of its employees, Mr Lilungwe Brighton Tembwe, who passed on 15 May 2020 and was based at its Hardap Dam Resort, did not die from Covid-19. “NWR would like to reiterate that the first group that was isolated at its Hardap resort […]