Peter Amutenya (standing) The auditor general Junius Kandjeke wants the land reform to account for N$98m after the ministry’s accounting officer, Peter Amutenya, indicated that they bought 12 farms for N$123m, while the ledger shows that the amount used was N$222m. Presenting the attorney general’s report in the National Assembly in Windhoek on Thursday, the […]

  The shack in which Katrina Silus’ body was found Police in Windhoek have identified the woman whose body was found burnt with an axe stuck in her neck Sunday morning as Katrina Silas. The body was found in a shack that burnt around 04h00. Neighbours said Silas argued with her unnamed boyfriend who is […]

A collard cheetah was bumped near the weighbridge between Windhoek and Rehoboth last week.

Police in Windhoek are looking for a man whose girlfriend’s body was found with an axe stuck in the neck and had been burnt beyond recognition in a shack fire on Sunday morning. According to police spokesperson Kauna Shikwambi, the unidentified woman and her boyfriend who is on the run argued around 01h00 and then […]

  Namibia’s national clean-up campaign was launched at Rundu in Kavango East Saturday. The clean-up campaign fell on the same with the International Day of Peace whose 2019 theme was Climate Action for Peace. Below are some of the scenes across the country where residents came out in numbers to clean up their surroundings.

Yang Fan, Kongo Mokaxwa and Teckla Lameck The N$120 million that was at the centre of the fraud case of former Public Service Commission boss, Teckla Lameck and her two other accomplices has left a bad taste in the mouth of Namibians after the three were let go by the High Court. Lawyers, civil rights […]

Bernard Kavau Former and suspended leaders of the Namibia National Students Organisation (Nanso), Simon Amunime, Bernard Kavau and Tyson Hihanguapo have launched a new rival student representative body called the Students Union of Namibia. The new organisation comes after the student leaders broke away from Nanso citing that they were being targeted for pointing out […]

ALEX SHIMUAFENI The domestic economy has posted yet again more worrisome subdued growth figures, recording a contraction of 2.6 per cent compared to a growth of 0.6 per cent recorded in the corresponding period of 2018. This comes right in the wake of a Bank of Namibia prediction that the economy will contract deeper for […]

National Assembly Speaker Peter Katjavivi Speaker of National Assembly Professor Peter Katjavivi has shot down at perception that he is well advanced in age to continue with government business saying he still has the energy to push on. If he is to make it back to parliament, considering that he has been nominated by President […]

Aggrieved fishermen have petitioned all High Court Judges and the Judicial Service Commission in a case in which they claim to have been injured by a ruling that shifted their labour case from the labour commission to the High Court. The fishermen went on a legal strike on 26 October 2015 against what they have […]