Month: June 2023

The ruling party has officially resolved to direct government to immediately take executive and legislative steps to clearly define the word 'spouse' in alignment with Namibia’s definition of marriage, which is a union between a man and a woman.

President Hage Geingob will today meet Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen and the Netherland’s prime minister Mark Rutte, who are in Namibia on joint working visits.

Running the Electoral Commission of Namibia is not for the weak, the institution’s outgoing boss Theo Mujoro says. 

The quest for land reached a climax on Friday when residents, identifying themselves as the backyard tenants’ association were stopped by the Namibian police after invading Farm 37 in Walvis Bay.

The Walvis Bay town council on Thursday tabled a N$609 million capital budget for the 2023/2024 financial year.

The ongoing tussle over whom to provide ground-handling services at Hosea Kutako International Airport is far from over.

A 33-year-old man who admitted that he strangled his police officer girlfriend and mother of his two young children to death in October 2021, was sentenced to an effective 28 years imprisonment last Wednesday by Windhoek High Court Christi Liebenberg.

Windhoek High Court Judge Herman January on Friday convicted a resident of Otjimbingwe in the Erongo region on three counts of rape and two counts of common assault. 

A health team has been deployed to the Omalapapa village of the Ohangwena region, where members of the San community residing there have been battling scabies for the past two months.

Haipanda Simbungu, who on Tuesday last week turned himself in at the Ncaute police station after allegedly slaying his daughter Maria Isoni Simbungu earlier that same day, has been denied bail by the Rundu Magistrate’s Court.