The Fishrot6 – former ministers Bernhard Esau and Sacky Sanghala, former Investec managers James Hatuikulip and Ricardo Gustavo, Tamson Hatuikulipi and Pius Mwatelulo – who are detained at Seeis Police Station outside Windhoek will be transferred to the Windhoek Correctional Facility Thursday. Police Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga confirmed to EagleFM on Thursday the move to transfer […]

Tonight, as you gather with family and friends in anticipation, and with expectant hearts the dawn of the Year 2020, I wish each one of you a happy, healthy and fulfilling New Year. As we enter the Year 2020, we pause to undertake personal and collective introspection. We pause to take stock of the successes […]

The Angolan government has ordered the preventive seizure of Isabel dos Santos’ accounts with four banks after proving that her companies had benefitted from state contracts. Isabel, one of Africa’s richest women, is the former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos’ eldest daughter. She owns 42,5% in the Bank Banco BIC, the holding company of […]

Former fisheries minister Bernhard Esau, one of the six #Fishrot accuse has been admitted in a Windhoek hospital. Khomas police deputy commissioner Abner Agas confirmed the admission although he did not say what was afflicting Esau or which hospital he has been admitted. Esau, former justice minister Sacky Shanghala, former Investec manager James Hatuikulipi and Ricardo Gustavo, […]

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 […]