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 […]

The agriculture ministry said there is no timber being harvested in Namibia as what the media is reporting. In a statement dated 13 January 2020, the ministry said the timber that is being transported across Namibia is from Zambia and the DRC. This timber, the statement said, has been authorised to be moved from these […]

The police and army said they are dismayed by the news of some officers deployed in the police-led joint crime prevention operation code-named Operation Kalahari Desert unbecoming behaviour. The acting police chief deputy inspector general Oscar Peter Embubulu told the media in Windhoek on Monday that the unbecoming behaviour perpetrated against members of the public […]

Swapo Party Youth League secretary and member of parliament Ephraim Nekongo has said that the concept of the independent candidate is meant to destroy the party. Nekongo says that the party should terminate with immediate effect the membership of anyone who supports any independent candidates. The SPYL secretary confirmed the statement on Monday saying that […]

The mayor for the Ongwediva Town Council, Angelina Angula, has exclusively disclosed to Eagle FM that a woman (name withheld) in the Oshinyadhila Village community sold a piece of land without the Ongwediva Town Council’s approval. Angula said her office cautioned the woman against the sale before she sold the plot but she was adamant […]

Independent political analyst Ndumba Kamwanyah has said that the Fishrot scandal and the ongoing drought will once again play a part in swaying voters in the by-elections slated for Wednesday this week. There are four by-elections in Khomasdal North, Walvis Bay Urban, Keetmanshoop Urban and Gobabis. Kamwanyah said established political outfits are in for a […]

Deputy commissioner Moses Khairabeb Otjozondjupa police are investigating why an Okakarara prosecutor, who was arrested for drunken driving on Saturday night, paid N$2 000 bail. The Otjozondjupa acting police commander deputy commissioner Moses Khairabeb told Eagle FM on Sunday that the unnamed 29-year-old prosecutor was arrested at Okakarara. Deputy commissioner Khairabeb said they were investigating […]