The Electoral Commission of Namibia chief electoral officer Theo Mujoro told Eagle FM on Saturday that the commission will not be able to run this year’s elections if the tribunal court rules in favour of manual paper ballots. The Electoral Tribunal is expected to rule on the application made by independent presidential candidate Dr Panduleni […]

  SOME parts of Namibia were plunged into darkness on Tuesday night when power was off for about two hours. The affected areas were those at the coast, northern regions, and central Namibia. The power utility, NamPower, says it was investigating the cause of a fault that affected the current transformer on the Kokerboom-Aries 400kV […]

The Electoral Tribunal has postponed independent presidential candidate Dr Panduleni Itula’s case in which he wants the Electoral Commission of Namibia to make changes to the use of the electronic voting machines to 25 November 2019. Dr Itula gave the electoral commission an ultimatum about a week ago demanding that if the electronic voting machines […]

President Hage Geingob has dismissed a news report in the state-owned New Era publication that said he had denounced demands for the dismissals of former ministers Sacky Shanghala and Bernhard Esau. The ministers, who are being investigated by the ACC for involvement in the N$150m fishing bribe from an Iceland company, resigned 13 November 2019. […]

  State House has dismissed reports that President Hage Geingob’s motorcade was blocked at Ondangwa on Saturday. Some media reports said that Geingob was stuck in the traffic after Dr Itula In a press statement Monday, the presidential press secretary Alfredo Hengari said that the media that reported about the blockade was misinforming the nation. […]

The environment ministry says 15 people were arrested between 11 and 17 November, while 10 new cases were reported during the same period. In a statement Monday, environment ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda said that two of the suspects were arrested for in connection with rhino poaching/trafficking cases (including cases of the conspiracy of rhino poaching). Four […]

The Namibia Qualifications Authority chief executive officer Frans Gertze who shot his wife, Annita, six times on Saturday has appeared in the Windhoek Magistrate Court Monday. Gertze is facing attempted murder, assault with the intention of causing gross bodily harm read with the Combating of the Gender-based Violence Act, and negligent handling of a firearm. […]

The Chinese-owned company that won the N$730 million-dollar Swapo headquarters construction tender is in line to win another N$1,2 billion-tender for upgrading the Arandis to Kranzberg railway line. Qingjian Group Co Ltd bid the rail upgrade tender as a joint venture with Unik Construction Engineering. Sources told Eagle FM that Unik Construction is constructing the […]

The SWAPO Party Youth League (SPYL) wants former ministers Sacky Shanghala and Bernhard Esau to resign following damning allegations that they received massive bribes from an Iceland fishing company in exchange for quotas and licences. Shanghala and Esau resigned on Wednesday after the scandal involving more than N$150m made headlines locally and globally. The two […]

The ACC said on Wednesday that the information they gathered when whistleblowers reported the fishing bribery scandal involving two ministers and an Iceland fishing company were not enough to compile in a docket they could have sent to the prosecutor general in 2014. Wikileaks exposed the corruption scandal this week in leaked that showed Iceland’s […]