The health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula said the Office of the Prime Minister has approved the creation of more than 4 000 positions in his ministry. Speaking to the media in Windhoek on Thursday, Dr Shangula said the 4 595 positions were created in various critical areas within the health ministry. Some of the positions […]

Advocate Jeremy Gauntlett and lawyer Frank Pelser The Supreme Court of Namibia on Friday reserved judgement in an application brought by five presidential candidates who participated in the 2019 Presidential Elections. The five candidates are Mike Kavekotora of the RPD, Henk Mudge of RP, Ignatius Shixwameni of APP, Epafras Mukwiilongo of the NEFF and the […]

Former minister of education Katrina Hanse-Himarwa has hired one of South Africa best defence lawyers Barry Roux to represent her in a case where she is seeking leave to appeal a Windhoek High Court conviction. Hanse-Himarwa, who was convicted on a charge under the Anti-Corruption Act in the Windhoek High Court last year, wants to […]

  August 26 Holdings chief executive officer Colonel George Kaxuxwena has said that there are closing down three subsidiaries that are insolvent. One of the companies is August 26 Textiles that makes shoes and employs about 86 workers. August 26 Holdings is 100%b owned by the government of Namibia through the Namibia Defence Force. According […]

                  Some of the poaching suspects             The anti-poaching unit – the Blue Rhino Combined Task Team – last week arrested 18 suspects among them two Oshakati Town Council workers. According to a weekly report released by the environment ministry, the arrests […]

The deputy education minister Anna Nghipondoka opened the 2020 school year Tuesday in Windhoek. Below we carry her speech verbatim. The Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture is happy to welcome you all back to the new academic year. We hope that everyone had a very pleasant holiday season and that you are well-rested and […]

Engineer Charles Mukwaso has said the directive by the agriculture ministry to ban the movement of mangoes from Zambia into Namibia is akin to the agro-economic blockade called the redline. Mukwaso said this when he responded to the letter written by the agriculture executive director Percy Misika dated 13 November 2019. Misika’s letter was directed […]

Tito Mboweni has a few radical ideas, but this might top the lot. South Africa’s finance minister wants Lesotho to be SA’s ‘tenth province’. He’s not been back on Twitter for very long, but Finance Minister Tito Mboweni knows how to whip-up a viral storm. The senior African National Congress (ANC) politician took to social […]

  Maximalliant Katjimune Popular Democratic Movement Youth League National spokesperson Maximalliant Katjimune said the poor performance of Grade 12 pupils in the urban areas is due to their easy access to entertainment activities which are not properly regulated. He mentioned that this mostly occurs in Windhoek, Swakopmund, Keetmanshoop, Rehoboth and Mariental areas. He went on […]

  The whereabouts of one of the men who picked up the two control units of the missing electronic voting machines last year in December 2019 are not known, according to an affidavit that was deposed as part of the electoral challenge to be heard on Friday. The affidavits are punic documents that are readily […]