Local authorities have been urged to look into ways to improve solid waste management in informal settlement areas. The call was made by the Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Peya Mushelenga during the commemoration of World Habitat Day in Windhoek’s Havana Informal Settlement.

In Namibia cancer case have increased from 1 625 in 2006 to 3 092 in 2012 and the leading cases were for breast cancer. In a speech read on her behalf, gynaecologist Dr Fatima Suleiman says nearly one in six deaths occur due to cancer. Cancer is one of the leading causes of deaths worldwide […]

The Office of the Prime Minister plans to produce a national risk profile for Namibia before the end of this financial year.

Recipients of old age and disability grants will receive their pay-outs for November and December in a once-off grant of N$2 500. The Ministry of Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, in a media statement on Monday, said the double payment will be effected at the end of November as is the usual practice towards the […]

The Namibian Police is urgently appealing to members of the public in tracing a 20-year-old suspect Gervin Gowanab who allegedly cut an eight-year-old’s private part and raped her. The Gender-Based Violence Protection Unit in Katutura said the rape incident happened on Friday at about 16h00 on farm Satan Stocht in the Daan Viljoen areas. It […]

UNAM employees are on strike. They are demanding a 6% increase backdated to the beginning of this year. Management and staff could not agree on an increase as UNAM management did not offer any wage increase while the workers wanted the 6% raise. Sixty-one percent of staff voted in favour of strike action. Exams are […]

Minister of Education Katrina Hanse-Himarwa’s corruption case has officially started in the High Court Monday before judge Christie Liebenberg. Hanse-Himarwa is facing charges of corruption in connection with the allocation of mass housing units while she was the Governor of Hardap region in 2014. It is alleged that she allocated two houses to her own […]

McHenry Venaani says there is need to implement policies that can stimulate economic growth. Venaani is concerned about what he termed the continuous decline in gains from the agriculture, wholesale and retail sectors.

The Popular Democratic Movement’s (PDM) central committee met at Oshakati to discuss the growth of the party, as well as next year’s parliamentary and presidential elections. Top on the agenda of the meeting was “document zero”, a tool that dissects the party’s strategy in an effort to reduce the ruling party’s two-thirds majority in Parliament […]

Composer of Namibia’s national anthem Axali Doeseb is still in awe over the rave reviews the song continues to receive 27 years after its conception.