Extreme face of Nam poverty
View the full imageTRAGIC: Salinde Witbeen with her partner, Hendrik Witbooi, who has been bedridden for the past few weeks and does not have money to go to hospital.View the full imageCHORES: Salinde...
View ArticleZimbabwe votes in tense poll
View the full imageALL SYSTEMS GO: Zimbabwean Chizema Najika (left), 80, shows her card as she leaves in a cart after voting at a polling station in Harare yesterday. Photo:...
View ArticleCorruption whistleblowers do it face-to-face
View the full imageCORRUPTION WATCH: The new Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) offices in Eros. PHOTO: FEODORA VON FRANCOISWINDHOEKNAMENE HELMICHFigures released by the Anti-Corruption Commission...
View ArticleKatima hospital to be upgraded
WINDHOEKFAITH SANKWASAThe Katima Mulilo Intermediate Hospital is to be upgraded to a referral facility by 2015 and will boast increased space and staff, as well as specialists in obstetrics, general...
View ArticleNon-paying dad's jail term lifted
WINDHOEKFRED GOEIEMANA father who was convicted to 1 000 hours of periodic imprisonment for not paying child maintenance for seven years has successfully appealed his sentence in the High Court.A...
View ArticleUDF councillor in court for theft
WINDHOEKELVIS MURARANGANDAUnited Democratic Front (UDF) councillor for Okahandja, Fredrick Shimanda, had been arrested and charged with theft from a car.The local authority politician appeared before...
View ArticleIUM student’s murder case postponed again
The case of three men who were arrested in February this year for the alleged murder of an International University of Management (IUM) student in August last year, has been remanded until the end of...
View ArticleSuspect flees to his death after schoolgirl's murder
WINDHOEKELVIS MURARANGANDAPolice are pinning the gruesome murder of a Walvis Bay schoolgirl on a man who was later knocked dead by a truck as he fled the scene.The schoolgirl, 17-year old Johanna...
View ArticleMeatco loses N$300m
View the full imageTHREAT: Angolans are buying cattle in Namibia and illegally sneaking them into their country. Photo: Contributed.View the full imageCONCERNED: Meatco's northern regional procurement...
View ArticleAuntie Nangy
View the full imageHe wears pantiesDear Auntie Nangy, I caught my husband in the bathroom when he was putting on a lace bra. He was wearing a lace panty. I was very shocked and just closed the door and...
View ArticleFeza, Cleo and Dillish in trouble
WindhoekGordon Joseph With the end of Big Brother The Chase slowly coming to an end, things are getting heated with housemates more suspicious about one another than ever. After an emotional eviction...
View ArticleFour nabbed after a break-in at Ondangwa
ONDANGWAPLACIDO HILUKILWAThe Namibian police have arrested four young men who are suspected of having broken into the Warthog Clothing shop at Ondangwa during the early morning hours of yesterday.The...
View ArticleSwapo, Botswana differ on Mugabe win
WINDHOEKTOIVO NDJEBELASwapo yesterday sharply contradicted the views of neighbours Botswana over the victory of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe in last week's election, amid calls for Southern...
View ArticleToddler's killer gets 30 years
Quote:Naomi ShivuteHigh Court judgeIt's sad and shocking… he killed the child because she criedWINDHOEKFRED GOEIEMANA 31-year-old man, convicted of murdering a four-year-old toddler, was yesterday...
View ArticleFNB, union sign salary deal
WINDHOEK ELLANIE SMITFirst National Bank (FNB) of Namibia has averted a crippling industrial action, after a compromise was reached with the Namibia Bank and Allied Workers Union (NBWU) on salary...
View ArticleCabinet moves on milk import restrictions
WINDHOEKNAMPACabinet has given the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) the go-ahead to implement interim restrictions on dairy imports.Cabinet said in a statement this week that the short-term relief...
View ArticleCity sells business plots to war vets
WINDHOEK FRED GOEIEMANThe City of Windhoek has approved the sale of six Katutura business plots to war veterans, as well as another piece of land, which will house the office of the Namibian National...
View ArticleSwapo approves module for party school
WINDHOEKTOIVO NDJEBELAIt will soon be back-to-school for Swapo cadres, after the party's politburo this week approved the module for the training of its members at what will be known as the Swapo Party...
View ArticleGIPF probe: more questions than answers
WINDHOEKELVIS MURARANGANDAAllegations have emerged that the City of Windhoek shelved a study conducted into the multi-million-dollar upgrading of Herero Mall in Katutura because the consultant is a...
View ArticleMore questions than answers in GIPF probe
WINDHOEKFAITH SANKWASAProsecutor-General Martha Imalwa found more questions than answers in two dockets submitted to her office by the Namibian Police about how the Government Institutions Pension Fund...
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