Mayor denies plot sabotage
Windhoek Mayor Muesee Kazapua has denied claims that the municipality is unresponsive and uncooperative in making land available for the Massive Urban Land Servicing Project. This project will lead to...
View ArticleN$4.3 billion for cars, jewellery and other consumables
A small decrease in the amount of credit issued during June might bode well for the repo rate announcement later this month, but may not be enough to stave off another increase.Read more about N$4.3...
View ArticleMinister calls for responsible reporting
The Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Tjekero Tweya, has lambasted some segments of the media whose reporting “creates false impressions”. Tweya was speaking at the opening of the...
View ArticlePolytech links with Kraatz Marine
The Polytechnic of Namibia recently signed an agreement with engineering company Kraatz Marine. The agreement makes provision for student and academics of the tertiary education institution to undergo...
View ArticleNghishidimbwa to Lesotho for SADC investigation
The police’s crime investigation coordinator for the Khomas Region, Deputy Commissioner Sylvanus Nghishidimbwa, has been named as the local investigator on the SADC team investigating the assassination...
View ArticleMan lures mute child with sweets
The neighbour of a mute five-year-old girl will appear in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate Court today after he allegedly lured her from her home with a promise to buy her sweets and then tried to rape her....
View ArticleBanning trophy hunting would harm conservation
While international organisations and activists are calling for a total ban of all trophy hunting the Minister of Environment and Tourism, Pohamba Shifeta, said that would have a devastating impact on...
View ArticleHage wanted me out - Ngurare
Expelled Secretary of the Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) Elijah Ngurare has provided Namibian Sun with a letter he had written to President Hage Geingob regarding his expulsion, in which he said that...
View ArticleAlfred Angula and Nafwu tit-for-tat battle continues
The Namibia Farm Workers Union (Nafwu) says the battle between it and former Secretary-General Alfred Angula is far from over because the union still wants the missing money and a vehicle that belongs...
View ArticleVolleyball sponsored by Bank Windhoek
The Namibia Volleyball Federation (NVF) on Tuesday received an N$80 000 sponsorship from Bank Windhoek. This sponsorship will go towards the hosting of the federation’s annual Bank Windhoek NVF Cup,...
View ArticleLocally based footballers called for training
Namibia’s Brave Warriors have called up a squad of 17 locally based players for a training session over the weekend. The selected players are requested to report for duty at the Namibia Football...
View ArticleNafwu congress held against court order
The Namibia Farm Workers Union (Nafwu) congress held last weekend was illegal. This follows a letter dated July 31 from the Deputy Labour Commissioner Tuulikki Shikongo who directed the...
View ArticleRDP condemns farm murders
The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) has condemned the recent murders of commercial farmers outside Okahandja and Grootfontein. In a strongly-worded statement issued by RDP’s Deputy Secretary for...
View ArticleKazenambo tears into Ngurare, Nahas and 'Swapo third force'
Senior Swapo politician Kazenambo Kazenambo has spat venom at recent remarks made by expelled youth leader Elijah Ngurare in which he is blaming President Hage Geingob for the political predicament he...
View ArticleFamily's fury at nurse killer sentence
The family of the late Liika Ndeukumwa Shangilifa, who was stabbed to death at her place of business at Onelombo village in 2013, said the justice system has failed them. Rebeus Lameka, 23, who was...
View ArticleMass Housing now Sacky’s baby
A Cabinet resolution has placed Attorney-General Sacky Shanghala at the centre of solving the impasse surrounding the ambitious housing initiative amid reports indicating that a government-sanctioned...
View ArticleHouse prices continue their relentless rise
Government’s recent watershed deal with land activists came just in time to forestall an inevitable crisis and appease potential investors in the local housing market, but should not be expected to...
View ArticleDe Jager killers had intent - State
State Prosecutor Ethel Ndlovu in her arguments for sentencing to Judge Naomi Shivute of the three men convicted of the murder of the owner of HAMS Security, Andries Petrus de Jager in 2009, said the...
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