Poorly maintained pot-filled roads hamper economic development and social transformation in developing countries. This was the view of Finance Minister Calle Schlettwein when he addressed the Southern Africa Focal Group Meeting for Africa Road Maintenance Funds Association underway in Windhoek.

President Hage Geingob has instructed the City of Windhoek to reinstate suspended City Police Chief, Abraham Kanime and drop charges against Chief Executive Officer Robert Kahimise. Dr Geingob said this during a meeting with Windhoek local authority councillors at State House.

China says it will continue to value its relationship with Namibia. This was said by the country’s Ambassador to Namibia, Zhang Yiming, when he handed over two hostel blocks at the Impalila Combined School in the Zambezi Region.

Standard Bank Namibia’s Buy-a-Brick initiative intends to make use of technology to produce innovative building materials at a lower price to address the housing shortages in the country. A researcher from the United States of America, Professor Andreas Mershin, addressed a public lecture on this initiative.

Sympathizers, under the banner of the Centre for People’s Resistance, marched to the US embassy this morning, in solidarity with the people of Venezuela. The group, comprising the Namibia-Cuba Friendship Association and a number of Namibians who studied in Venezuela, want the international community to condemn and reject America from instigating chaos and regime change […]

President Hage Geingob, as SADC Chairperson, is expected to address staff at the bloc’s headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana. Dr Geingob will travel to Gaborone on Thursday.

Athletic Fraternity mourns the death of its’ vice president Johannes Shekutamba Mathew who died last week Thursday. Mathew, has been described as an unwavering sport soldier who was at the core of sports development in the Oshana region and beyond. Mathew, who died at age of 39 at the Oshakati Intermediate hospital after a short […]

Global Fund employee, Simataa Simasiku, who fatally shot his boss in a fit of rage made his first appearance in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court today. Simasiku appeared on charges of murder and attempted murder before Magistrate Vanessa Stanley. His case was postponed to 01 March for further investigations and to allow him to seek legal […]

A six-member family in the Oshakati West Constituency is still sleeping in the open, after a fire gutted their shack last week Thursday and left them without a roof over their heads. The head of the family Nangula Kakololo, 46, in an interview on Tuesday said the fire destroyed their two-bedroom dwelling with its kitchen […]

With barely eight months left before the Rugby World Cup kicks off in Japan, the Namibia Rugby Union and World Rugby still have not reached an agreement, leaving the national team’s participation in jeopardy. Since taking over office in April last year, the NRU board has requested the total control of local rugby affairs, including […]