President Hage Geingob has signed a proclamation to pardon 1 023 prisoners in commemoration of Namibia’s 30th Independence anniversary. Namibia reached 30 years of self-rule on 21 March 2020, but the event was cancelled because of Covid-19. Geingob, however, said he was exercising his Constitutional powers to pardon certain classes of prisoners. The Proclamation issuing […]

We must go back to the beginning to find ourselves. Each country has to ask why they struggled for independence. Because as it is now, the paths we have followed seem to be leading us nowhere. This could probably be because most countries after independence just took off from where the colonisers had left. We […]

Windhoek City Police Chief Abraham Kanime said they were trying as hard as possible to talk to the community about maintaining social distancing and observing other state of emergency regulations. Chief Kanime told Eagle FM on Tuesday that although it is not easy to enforce the regulations, the presence of the police should make the […]

The education ministry has announced a four-phase back to school plan for the 2020 academic year.  The executive director of the education ministry Sanet Steenkamp has announced a four-phase plan for the reopening of schools and resumption of face-to-face teaching and learning.  The first phase will start with the grades 11 and 12 resuming face-to-face […]

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 […]