Month: February 2022

The suffering and eventual death of a 13-year-old girl from the Ohangwena region came to the attention of the gender equality minister who expressed anger at the ordeal and the handling of the case.

On Friday, farm owners and some residents of Etunda and surrounding areas in the Omusati region held a demonstration to call for the closure of the Otjimbele asparagus operation at the Etunda green scheme.

Katrina Liswani believes the advancement of women should not be seen as undermining or being done at the expense of men. 

Jeremia van Wyk, a Windhoek resident who confessed to abducting, kidnapping and raping a five-year-old minor, has been allocated a new legal aid lawyer after his previous lawyer died.

Last week, New Era published an article ‘Ukraine: Namibian students stay put’, about the ministry of international relations cautioning Namibian students in Ukraine to stay put while the government is monitoring the political situation as tensions between Ukraine and Russia increased.

Residents of the //Kharas region reacted with shock and disbelieve at the seemingly senseless killing of a farmworker, Edmund Mutete from Area 7, Lὓderitz who has been assaulted and left to die in the field.

Namibia over the weekend surpassed the 4 000 Covid-19 death mark, showing an indication the pandemic is still claiming lives, even though numbers of fatalities have decreased and regulations have been relaxed.

Subsequent to the theft of some national examination papers last year, the education ministry had to pull additional resources to the cost of over N$15 million to re-run the examinations and to ensure timely release of results as initially planned.

A 40-year-old Angolan national was allegedly stabbed to death with a knife on Friday for allegedly making noise.