Month: October 2023

For the 2021/22 financial year, the northern town of Ongwediva was brushed with an adverse opinion by auditor general Junias Kandjeke.

President Hage Geingob will host South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, who will undertake an official visit to Namibia to participate in the third session of the two countries’ Bi-National Commission (BNC) on Friday.

Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources, Tjekero Tweya said there is a need to reverse government policies that are found to stifle economic activities and progress. 

Seven members of a family escaped unscathed from a traditional hut that fell on them due to a whirlwind that damaged their home in the Oneheke village of Okalango on Saturday.

After a decade, the Cyber Crime Bill, along with the Data Protection Bill and the National Cyber Security Strategy, is expected to be passed in the National Assembly next year. 

Deputy prosecutor general Antonia Verhoef yesterday requested Windhoek High Court judge Christie Liebenberg to sentence the two American citizens, convicted of an assassin-like murder of Namibian André Heckmair in 2011, to life imprisonment.

The stench of the biggest corruption scandal in the country, dubbed Fishrot, continues to linger as more people and more companies have become entangled in it.

In spite of the health ministry’s report that the lead exposure at Rosh Pinah in the //Kharas region “was not a health issue”, a local doctor is alarmed at the sudden increase in cases of lead exposure. 

The Namibian Stock Exchange (NSX) has been awarded as the 2023 winner for Best Stock Exchange Management (Africa).

Namibia and South Africa’s business executives will be exploring opportunities to increase trade and investment flows between the two countries at the Namibia-South African Business Forum and Exhibition, slated for the Windhoek Country Club tomorrow, 13 October 2023.