Month: December 2022

Amidst the internal wrangles brought by Swapo’s just-ended seventh elective congress, Swapo veteran Helmut Angula has called for calm within the party, and for members to focus on finding amicable solutions to rectify the mistakes.

After relative peace in recent months, the City of Windhoek council yesterday failed to elect its new office-bearers after councillors representing Swapo and the Independent Patriots for Change staged a walkout, much to the disappointment of residents and invited guests. 

The government has spent nearly N$7 billion between 2018 and 2022 on 70 233 students who were provided with financial assistance by the Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF). 

President Hage Geingob says HIV/AIDS remains a public health issue that continues to rob Namibia of much-needed human capital and compromises our socio-economic progress.

The introduction of tolls on public roads will rob Namibians of their hard-earned money, Popular Democratic Movement leader McHenry Venaani said on Wednesday.

Former minister of justice and attorney general Sacky Shanghala and two of his co-accused in the Fishrot trial have joined Ricardo Gustavo in the petition to appeal Windhoek High Court Judge Kobus Miller’s decision not to recuse himself from the trial for perceived bias.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) regional SRH/HIV advisor for east and southern Africa, Innocent Modisaotsile has appealed for legal reforms to ensure progress towards universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH). 

A 36-year-old unemployed mother from Omitara informal settlement has pleaded for a wheelchair for her 12-year-old boy, who was born with a disability.

The swearing-in ceremony of office - bearers for the Katima Mulilo Town Council, which was scheduled to take place yesterday, was postponed after three members of the opposition chose to boycott it.

To honour Namibia’s emancipation from the South African apartheid government, Zimbabwe has given Namibia one acre of land in its Pan-African Memorial Park and Museum of African Liberation Project in Liberation City, Harare, for the construction of an outdoor monument.