Leaders from the 16 member regional block started arriving for the 38th SADC Summit which kicks off in Windhoek on Friday. Our news team was at the airport and compiled this report.

NBC employees staged another demonstration outside the corporation’s Headquarters demanding the immediate implementation of salary increases. They now want President Geingob and the Minister of Information and Communication Technology Stanley Simataa to intervene.

Retrenchments at Ohorongo Cement have started. The public relations and corporate communications manager said the company was going through tough economic times hence the move.

Significant progress has been made towards eliminating malaria in Southern African countries. This was revealed by malaria expert and Elimination 8 Ambassador Dr Richard Kamwi.

The Otjozondjupa Police are still waiting for the DNA results to identify seven people who died in a horrific car accident about five kilometres north of Otjiwarongo. The people who perished are actually seven and not eight as was indicated earlier.

Civil society organisations in Namibia will march to the SADC summit to hand over a communique to the regional leaders on Friday. The communique will outline how governments in the region could incorporate the ideas of civil society organisations.

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has arrived in Namibia as special guest at the SADC Summit for Heads of State and Government. Namibia’s International Relations and Cooperation Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has received all arriving leaders. Earlier Thursday afternoon Zamibian President Edgar Lungu and his Botswana counterpart, Mokgweetsi Masisi, as well as Lesotho’s Prime Minister Tom […]

The bail hearing of two men accused of smuggling cocaine of more than N$200 million through the Walvis Bay harbour, in the Erongo Region, has been postponed to 3 September. The cocaine was concealed in boxes of printing paper in a container from Brazil. The accused, who own a company together, were arrested when they […]

SADC is expected to award journalists in a number of fields during the 38th SADC Summit. The four categories include photo, print, television and radio journalism.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived at the Hosea Kutako International Airport for the 38th SADC Summit currently underway in Windhoek. Ramaphosa, the outgoing chairman of the regional body, was welcomed by International Relations and Cooperation Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah who is also Namibia’s Deputy Prime Minister, her deputy Christina //Hoebes, Agriculture, Water and Forestry […]