Month: January 2019

The legendary Jeep Wrangler continues to demonstrate its award-winning credentials after winning the UK’s 4x4 Magazine Special Off-Road Award in the magazine’s 4x4 of the Year honours.

The new and perhaps most exciting Range Rover Evogue is expected to be in Windhoek by April this year. Available from Land Rover Windhoek, the much-anticipated new Evoque is the embodiment of Range Rover’s modernist design approach and offers a bold evolution that retains the essence of Evoque’s character. 

The Namibian economy will probably show marginally positive growth in 2019 of 1.5 percent in real terms.  This outcome will largely be the result of a “flattening” out of the down cycle rather than a real recovery.

WINDHOEK – Air Namibia is fighting tooth and nail to have an attachment order by a German court thrown out as it argues that the judgement by a Munich court in January 2015 remains enforceable only in Germany.

WINDHOEK - The only accrual-based stakeholders that managed to receive three consecutive unqualified audit opinions between 2014 and 2017 were the Erongo Regional Council and the Aroab Village Council.

WINDHOEK – No arrest has yet been made a month after a taxi driver was found dead and half-naked in Otjomuise, police say.

OMUTHIYA - Crime and motor accidents in Oshikoto Region drastically reduced over the festive season, an achievement the Deputy Commissioner for Crime Prevention, Petrus Shigwedha, attributed to various tactical operations such as night foot and vehicle patrols in town and villages, as well as setting up permanent roadblocks.

OUTAPI - After cries of neglect by its residents, the settlement of Okalongo is scheduled to be upgraded to a town with its council skipping the village council status.

WINDHOEK - A group of former People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (Plan) combatants recognised as war veterans led by Nkrumah Mushelenga has initiated an investment trust to help war veterans.

ONGWEDIVA - The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry has advised farmers in northern Namibia to prepare themselves for a possible drought because of erratic rainfall so far this rainy season.