Acting Judge President Hosea Angula has ordered the suspension of a Windhoek-based lawyer, Richard Traugott Diethelm Mueller after the Law Society of Namibia filed an urgent court application in a case of suspected embezzlement of funds to the tune of N$1.5 million. Mueller stands accused of failing to pay monies owed to Sun Karros Lifestyle. […]

The Office of the Prime Minister has asked the National Assembly to extend the State of Emergency to 5 March 2020. President Hage Geingob declared the State of Emergency: National Disaster (Drought) on 6 May 2019 until 6 October 2019. The motivation was made Wednesday by Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila because of the continued drought […]

The Namibia Wildlife Resort said the carcass found in a fridge at one of its resorts a few weeks ago was not poached but was being stored for the antipoaching unit. A guest at the resort video recorded the carcass that was stored in a compartment behind the fridge while he was looking for ice […]

  A lawyer has been temporarily suspended from executing his services by the High Court at the back of allegations that he misappropriated N$1,2m from a trust fund belonging to his client. The case landed in court Wednesday before Justice Geier after the Law Society of Namibia filed an urgent court application against the accused, […]

  Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila said Wednesday that the estimated number of household beneficiaries for drought relief was initially 42,000 but has now been revised up to 172 938 household that comprises of about 908,018 people. Addressing ministers, deputy ministers, governors and regional council officials in Windhoek, Kuugongelwa-Amadhila said also the drought relief initial budget […]

  Finance minister Calle Schlettwein has said that the Government has increased the development budget by 42.2 per cent from N$5,5 billion to N$7,9 billion for the 2019/20 financial year. Schlettwein said this in his response to the latest downgrade by Fitch Ratings whose results were announced Tuesday in Hong Kong. Fitch Ratings says they […]

  Fitch Ratings says it expects the Namibian weakening economic growth to contract by 1.2 per cent in 2019, against its initial positive growth expectations of 0.7 per cent. In a report released Tuesday from Hong Kong, Fitch has also downgraded Namibia’s long-term non-Rand foreign currency bonds from BB+sub-investment-grade assigned in 2017 with a negative […]

  Namibia’s current account deficit worsened to N$3.1 billion in the second quarter of 2019 compared to a deficit of N$1.3 billion in the second quarter of 2018. According to the Bank of Namibia’s second-quarter report released Monday, the main drivers of the widening current account deficit were the substantial deterioration in the merchandise trade deficit as […]

  The Popular Democratic Movement has released names of its members who could be going to parliament if the party wins enough seats in the November 2019 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. PDM held its electoral college in Windhoek at the weekend. The Movement also held the National Executive Committee (NEC) elections. The NEC is serving […]

  The official opposition party, the Popular Democratic Movement has held its electoral college this Saturday and its President, and McHenry Venaani told the party’s faithful that they will not insult the ruling Swapo party during the campaign trail. “I want to urge you members of the central committee and especially regional coordinators we are […]