Acting fisheries minister, Albert Kawana, has now washed his hands off of Fishcor after its employees and those of Seaflower pressured him via a letter sent on their behalf by law firm Tjombe and Elago for him to fire the company’s board for failing to get rid of the Fishrot corruption. Kawana told Eagle FM […]

Home affairs on Wednesday said they are investigating about 70 shame marriages between local women and foreign men seeking to regularise their stay in the country without following procedures. Home affairs deputy minister Maureen Hinda-Mbuende said the problem of sham marriages is not only a challenge in Namibia but the world over. She cautioned Namibians […]

Chief Justice Peter Shivute said the underperformance in the lower courts are as a result of a shortage of courtrooms and magistrates. He said this during the official opening of the legal year, that took place at the Supreme Court today. The chief justice also listed incomplete police investigations and double bookings of lawyers, also […]

President Hage Geingob says the executive remains committed to respecting and upholding the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people as enshrined in the Constitution. Geingob said this in Windhoek on Wednesday when he officially opened the legal year. According to Geingob, the Government and all organs of the State shall do all that is […]

The Zimbabwean couple Edward Nketa and his wife Caroline who are the main suspects in the murder of a 10-year-old girl whose badly burnt body was found dumped in a skip bi in Windhoek were arrested Sunday afternoon The body of the unidentified girl was found in the skip bin in Windhoek West on Saturday […]

PDM leader McHenry Venaani said he visited the Ondonga King Fillemon Shuumbwa Nangolo on Saturday to introduce his party’s incoming members of parliament from the area. Venaani said this when he addressed the media after meeting the king at Onambango village in Oshana region. “We are not here for politics. We are here as children […]

The environment ministry has confirmed that some lions that escaped from Etosha National Park Saturday night attacked a donkey and a cow in the area between Casablanca and Oshivelo. The confirmation comes after a video of two lions attacking a donkey went viral on social networks. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry’s spokesperson Romeo […]

Police in Windhoek are hunting for two people suspected to have been involved in the death of a 10-year-old girl whose body was found badly burnt and dumped in a skip bin in Windhoek West on Saturday night. Deputy commissioner Kauna Shikwambi said one person has already been arrested in connection with the girl’s gruesome […]

Another day in paradise (from left) Sacky Shanghala, James and Tamson Hatuikulipi in Iceland Fishrot6 want their money, cars, computers and documents back, this is after Jason Iyambo was arrested on Monday while attempting to bribe an ACC investigator to release four bank cards that belong to Tamson Hatuikulipi and Pius Mwatelulo. The fishrot6 are […]

McHenry Venaani with some fishermen in 2016 The Namibia Fisherman United Association says the Icelandic fishing company is not to blame for what happened to its members but the Namibian government is. PDM president McHenry Venaani this week circulated a letter which he addressed to the Icelandic company Samherji that is at the centre of […]