Month: August 2018

WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute on Tuesday dismissed an application by South African national Wilhelm (Wimpie) Derick February, 39, that murder and rape charges against him be dismissed for lack of evidence.

WINDHOEK - The International Extremity Project (IEP) medical team that performed orthopaedic surgery in Namibia for the past two weeks donated arthroscopy equipment to the Ministry of Health and Social Services valued at N$420 000.

NKURENKURU - Kavango West Governor Sirkka Ausiku says all is set for Heroes Day at Nkurenkuru this Sunday, August 26.

WINDHOEK - Twenty eight years after the country’s independence, the veteran who went by the combat name of Tommy as a fighter with the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia, PLAN, now in his seventies, still has unaccomplished missions

RUNDU - The Northern Regional Electricity Distributor (Nored) has undertaken a Network Study and Asset Valuation project in Kavango East Region but which is being sabotaged by a malicious social media message discouraging home owners  to allow Nored staff into their homes and businesses.

SWAKOPMUND - The Ministry of Poverty Eradiation and Social Welfare through a blueprint on poverty eradication will explore a new type of a social grant to target unemployed, poor and vulnerable Namibians not catered for under existing grants.

Our Star of the Week is the German ambassador to Namibia, Christian Shlaga whose embassy on Wednesday signed a funding agreement on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany that will see the public interest law firm the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) receiving N$683 000 towards the LAC’s project, “Sharing Information on Women’ and Children’s Rights.”

WINDHOEK - The Alliance of Churches and Ministries in Namibia (ACM) says the law should take its course on preachers who use the Gospel but whose practices are devious and contrary to the law. 

WINDHOEK - A Katutura family of 19 was left destitute after they lost everything in the fire that gutted down their home last week.

WINDHOEK - Despite the fact that government has since 2013 introduced free universal education as per the constitution, the Teachers Union of Namibia (TUN) feels in reality the spin-offs of free education never took effect in Namibia.