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Swimming braces for year-opening event
After a long December and January summer vacation, the swimming season will start this weekend with the first Bank Windhoek gala for 2015. The gala will take place at the Olympia swimming pool in...
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Ivory Coast advances
The luck of the draw was due to decide the final quarterfinalist at the African Cup of Nations (AFCON). Ivory Coast earned its spot from Group D by beating Cameroon 1-0 on Wednesday, but Mali and...
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Runners step up in Khomas event
The Khomas Regional Athletics Championships took place at the Independence Stadium last weekend. The event delivered some interesting results even though some of the better-known athletes opted to skip...
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Brazilians: How YOU are being robbed
Namibian women’s obsession with so-called Brazilian weaves are leaving them in a debt cycle, with hairstylists saying that bank cards are being left as a promise of payment, when clients can’t afford...
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Family to sue for baby's vaccination death
The Office of the Prosecutor General (PG) is set to receive a culpable homicide docket from the police, after they investigated Local and Regional Government Minister Charles Namoloh in connection with...
View ArticlePG to decide on Namoloh death crash
The Office of the Prosecutor General (PG) is set to receive a culpable homicide docket from the police, after they investigated Local and Regional Government Minister Charles Namoloh in connection with...
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Teams send out warnings
The Bidvest Namibia Cup is set to take centre stage this weekend with the competition proper taking place in Tsumeb and Windhoek. Having played the preliminaries and all ties now secured, teams in the...
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SA's Prime Evil claims Namibian retirement plot
Paroled South African apartheid killer Eugene De Kock has alleged in a prison social worker’s report that former Swapo fighters in Namibia had offered him a piece of land in a remote part of the...
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Three new schools join archery programme
The Archery Association of Namibia (AAN) has added three new schools into the National Archery in Schools Programme (NASP) the body announced last Thursday. The AAN Secretary Karola Woortman, said in a...
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Fuel to drop below N$10 per litre
Motorists can look forward to yet more relief, after government announced petrol and diesel prices will drop by more than one dollar on Wednesday. The petrol price will drop by one N$1 per litre and...
View ArticleMan commits suicide after shooting wife
The condition of the Keetmanshoop woman, who was shot by her husband this past Friday morning, is improving. Elfriede Frederick, 43, suffered gunshot wounds when her husband, Henock Frederick, 49,...
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Another baby dies after vaccination
A Windhoek mother alleges that her three-month-old baby boy died from a vaccine he received at the Okuryangava Clinic in early January. The mother Victoria Kangala, 26, said although the death...
View ArticleVenaani tackles govt fuel abuse
The DTA has called for the implementation of a strict system to control the use of government fuel. Party leader McHenry Venaani said they have observed that government politicians have enjoyed...
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Mass housing beneficiaries still homeless
The 89 Government Mass Housing Project houses handed over by National Housing Enterprise (NHE) to the Walvis Bay Municipality in November last year remain empty. This is despite the dwellings being...
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Djokovic claims eighth grand slam
Top seed Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Murray 7-6(5), 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-0 to win the Australian Open title yesterday. The victory sealed Djokovic’s eighth grand slam title and fifth at Melbourne Park. The...
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Namibia scoops another global award
Namibia’s conservation success story has bagged yet another international award. The country ended joint second with Turkey at the United Nations World Trade Organisation (UNWTO) Awards for Excellence...
View ArticleOshikoto to challenge Erongo
The Director of Education in the Oshikoto Region has been given clear assignments for the academic year 2015. These include retaining first position in the national Grade 10 examination results; moving...
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Race for NPL golden boot heats up
The chase is on for the honour of walking away as the top goal scorer in the MTC Namibia Premier League (NPL). With the NPL having grown in numbers, from 12 to 16 teams, chances to score goals have...
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Red tape stumps electrification
Administrative red tape has bogged down the implementation of phase two of an electrification project at the Blikkiesdorp informal settlement in Maltahöhe - angering the community and councillors. It...
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Rapes dominate weekend crime
A 10-year-old girl was raped in the Grysblok area early on Sunday morning, while three more rapes occurred in the //Karas and Hardap regions. No details were available immediately regarding the...
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