WINDHOEK- Air Namibia’s Cooperate Communication Manager, Paul Nakawa highlighted the significance of independence by reminding Namibians not to forget the difficulties and the barbaric treatment that characterised the road to freedom
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2019-03-222024-05-06Business
ACP’s efforts post-Cotonou must be economically sustainable – Tweya
WINDHOEK – Namibia has reaffirmed its commitment to the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) and European Union (EU) partnership and says it will do all it can to honour and work toward the commitments embodied in the Cotonou Agreement and post-Cotonou when it expires in 2020. This was the message by Minister of Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development, Tjekero Tweya, when he spoke on Wednesday at the 37TH session of ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly that took place in the Bucharest, Romania.
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2019-03-222024-05-07Letters
No white farmer in Namibia ever stole land
LETTERS - I am writing this because I cannot believe in the scenario as being described in the New Era editorial of [last week].
I, being a German-speaking born Namibian, and also being a farmer who has bought all his farms well after independence, have not witnessed or spoken to anybody in the recent days, joyously celebrating the dismissal of the [Ovaherero/Nama] court case in New York.
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2019-03-222024-05-07Letters
Ethiopian tragedy must unite the world
LETTERS - We join the international community in mourning the 157 passengers and crew who perished when an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed on Sunday morning en route to Nairobi from Addis Ababa , six minutes after take-off.
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2019-03-222024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
The media cannot be a tool of regurgitation
On Tuesday of this week the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) had consultations with political parties and whoever else regarding the vexed issue of having paper trail when using the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) of which Namibia is a pioneer in their use in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc).
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2019-03-222024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Decolonisation of tertiary education a must
Scholars in decoloniality are spreading the good gospel according to the total decolonisation of tertiary education and advocating for an era in which African universities will use curricula that are free from the vices or evils of colonialism, apartheid and imperialism.
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2019-03-222024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Nujoma, Kozonguizi dichotomy: A critical review
Jariretundu Kozonguivi, an intellectual militant internationalist was a brainchild of the African National Congress in Eastern Cape while at Fort Hare University, while Sam Nujoma is a crude breed of the railway contract labour system that forced him to adopt African nationalism to fight for their rights.
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2019-03-222024-06-20Focus, Thought Leaders
Remembering the Land of the Brave
Though separated by many independence years, Ghana, 62 and Namibia, 29, share a common independence birth month: March.
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2019-03-222024-05-02Front Page News
President on leading a nation that wants more
President Hage Geingob this week sat down with New Era Managing Editor Toivo Ndjebela at State House for an interview that touched on his four-year presidential journey so far, the country’s public debt situation and leading the ruling party Swapo.
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2019-03-222024-05-02Front Page News
Former property developer fined for fraud
WINDHOEK - A former property mogul from Swakopmund was on Wednesday fined to pay a fine of N$100 000 or spend the next 10 and a half years behind bars at the conclusion of his fraud trial in the Windhoek High Court.