Year: 2019

The demand for doctoral degrees has risen to unprecedented levels for various reasons the world over, leading to ordinary, well-known and high-profile people being entangled in the fake PhDs web. 

In 1997, celebrated Oshiwambo novelist and author Angula T. Ndjembo published an Oshiwambo drama titled ‘Okana oke eta ekumbu lyamwene’. 

WINDHOEK –– A 28-year-old woman was allegedly raped in front of her minor son after an acquaintance forcefully entered their shack over the weekend in Gibeon.  

ETUNDA - Farmers at Etunda village, south of Epalela in Omusati Region, fear that if it fails to rain many households will suffer food insecurity and many people, mostly the youth, will lose their income. 

WINDHOEK – The new Indian High Commissioner to Namibia, Prashant Agrawal, said his country – the world’s sixth largest by nominal GDP – intends to boost investment and economic ties with Namibia.

RUNDU - Somewhere in Ndama settlement some 100 metres north of the Trans-Zambezi Highway is a corrugated iron sheet shack partitioned with a brick wall, boards and once you open the door you are greeted with a truly amazing interior decor and designs that can make your jaw drop.

WINDHOEK – President Hage Geingob yesterday said declaring a state of emergency over informal settlements was no election ploy but part of fulfilling resolutions taken at the second national land conference held last year.

WINDHOEK - Namibia has added her voice to growing international concern over the political crisis in Venezuela, calling on the international community to allow the Venezuelans to resolve their internal issues in an amicable and peaceful manner.

WINDHOEK - Chalton Hwende, a Member of Parliament for Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, is in Namibia amidst reports in his home country that he is wanted by police in connection with recent protests in which about 12 people died.

OMUTHIYA - About 70 percent of learners enrolled at Omuthiyagwiipundi Senior Secondary School reside in rented corrugated iron zinc shacks at the town’s sprawling informal settlement of Kaniita and at the nearby village of Oshimangwa Shongete.