The case in which five presidential candidates want the Supreme Court to nullify the results of the 2019 elections has been postponed to 17 Jan. 2020. The five are Dr Panduleni Itula, independent candidate, Mike Kavekotora (RDP), Henk Mudge (RP), Ignatius Shixwameni (APP) and Epras Mukwiilongo (NEFF). Urban development minister is the first respondent, while […]

FIRED… Chagwa Kasolo The Zambian permanent secretary for information and broadcasting, Chanda Kasolo, who said that the proposed salary cuts by president Edgar Lungu are voluntary has been fired. Lungu announced on 27 Dec 2019 that his salary and those of cabinet ministers as well as public enterprises bosses should be cut by anything from […]

Information deputy minister Engelbrecht Nawatiseb says it is not illegal to use his luxurious official vehicle to carry fish and that he is entitled to such benefits. Nawatiseb had a confrontation with some Henties Bay white communities who video recorded him collecting fish. The people who video-recorded him said that he was abusing the government […]

Zambian President Edgar Lungu has cut his salary and that of his Cabinet as well as public enterprises bosses by 15 and 20 per cent with effect Jan. 2020. Lungu announced the decision in a statement dated 27 Dec. 2019. Non-unionised public officers among them public enterprises chief executive officers will also have their salaries […]

  Independent presidential candidate Dr Panduleni Itula told Swapo secretary-general Sophia Shaningwa that she must commence preparations for a disciplinary hearing in all earnest without fail. Shaningwa wrote to Dr Itula on 20 Dec. notifying him about a disciplinary action arising from his decision to run as an independent presidential candidate in Nov 2019. According […]

The deputy information minister Engelbrecht Nawatiseb has sought police protection from harassment by white operators at Henties Bay. Nawatiseb has accused the operators of racism and hatred towards him and his family over a property he bought and fenced it off. The deputy minister told Eagle FM Friday afternoon that the whites seem not to […]

An Angolan online newspaper says that businessman Jack Huang, who has Namibian citizenship, and five other people were arrested in Luanda on suspicion of producing counterfeit money. Huang claims to be president Hage Geingob’s friend. The portal said that Huang was arrested Thursday when the attorney general’s office raided the Hua Dragão ‘City of China’ […]

  High Court Judge Kobus Miller ruled on Friday that there was no urgency in the matter brought before him by the Fishrot6 who sought to be to have their warrants of execution set aside. The Fishrot6 – former ministers Bernhard Esau and Sacky Shanghala, former Investec manager James Hatuikulipi and Ricardo Gustavo, Tamson who […]

  Activist Dimbulukeni Nauyoma told Eagle FM on Thursday that some of the cases the Anti-Corruption Commission director-general Paulus Noa said he is not aware of is in the commission’s system. Nauyoma was responding to Noa’s who had responded to a petition handed over to him on 9 December 2019. The petition lists about 14 […]

A man was shot in front of his house in Katutura, Windhoek on Tuesday night. The police, who confirmed the incident, said Elvis Eiseb aged 28 died on arrival at a Windhoek hospital. The Eiseb family said Elvis was shot around 23h00. Police deputy commissioner Argus Abner confirmed the shooting. Elvis worked at Checkers Wernhil. […]