Namibians are by nature law-abiding, but hardened repeat offenders, murderers whose hands drip with the blood of innocent victims, rapists, looters of public coffers, unrepentant burglars, cattle thieves are holding sway and riding roughshod over the bulk of a cowed population.
Post
2019-11-082024-05-07National
Public lectures lined up on genocide
WINDHOEK - Dr Matthias Hausller, a German-based researcher, is expected to undertake a lectures programme of the German Federal Government in Namibia.
Post
2019-11-082024-05-07National
Acute food shortage threatens family
OKAKU - Like many other subsistence farmers in northern Namibia, a family in the Okaku constituency is struggling to put food on the table and has had to rely on cattle hides for relish.
Post
2019-11-082024-06-18Crime and Courts
Kasupi slapped with 30 years in prison
WINDHOEK - A young man from Leonardville, who was only 17 years old when he slit the throat of his two-month pregnant girlfriend, was sentenced to an effective 30 years in jail this week by Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Kobus Miller.
Post
2019-11-082024-06-18Crime and Courts
State wants 25 years for woman guilty of human trafficking
WINDHOEK - State prosecutor Felisitas Sikerete-Vendura this week asked High Court Judge Naomi Shivute to sentence a woman convicted of luring two underage girls from a village in northern Namibia under false promises of employment and then selling them into sexual slavery, to an effective 25 years in jail.
Post
2019-11-082024-05-07Focus
Star of the Week: Fabina Nditoudja Hangula
Our Star of the Week is Fabina Nditoudja Hangula who was promoted to the rank of senior correctional officer by Namibian Correctional Service Commissioner-General Raphael Tuhafeni Hamunyela.
Post
2019-11-082024-05-07National
Namibia supports pooled procurement
WINDHOEK - Namibia is one of the nine African countries that has agreed to render its support towards pooled procurement to increase their access to affordable life-saving vaccines.
Post
2019-11-082024-04-30Front Page News
//Garoëb denies Swapo link
WINDHOEK - A scheduled meeting, which never materialised yesterday between President Hage Geingob, Founding President Sam Nujoma and Damara leader Gaob Justus //Garoëb, may have fuelled speculations that the latter was defecting to the ruling party. //Garoëb, in an interview with New Era, dismissed reports linking him to Swapo, saying he was a committed United Democratic Front of Namibia (UDF) member even though he quit active politics in 2013.
Post
2019-11-082024-04-30Front Page News
Namibia opens arms to election monitors
WINDHOEK – The Electoral Commission of Namibia has already started granting local, regional and international organisations observer status in this month’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.
Post
2019-11-082024-05-07National
Mudge drops out of presidential race, ECN defiant
WINDHOEK – Republic Party leader Henk Mudge announced yesterday that he has dropped out of this month’s presidential race in order to support independent candidate Dr Panduleni Itula.