President Hage Geingob joined fellow mourners in describing former ambassador, Nora Schimming-Chase as a fierce, principled diplomat, who served her country with diligence. At the memorial service held in her honour at Parliament Gardens Friday afternoon, Geingob said Schimming-Chase was part of a rare breed of leaders whose capacity shaped the path towards Namibia’s independence.

The Southern Africa Development Community’s (SADC) health ministers and ambassadors held an emergency high-level inter-ministerial meeting in South Africa to discuss the world’s largest listeriosis outbreak, which started in that country.

People with disabilities have voiced their dismay over offensive names they are called in society, particularly by young people. They are now calling on parents to educate their children, that people with disabilities are just like everyone else.

A spiritual counselling consultant in the Ministry of Veteran Affairs says liberation fighters are in need of more healing, over war trauma they suffered. Reverend Tshapaka Kapolo made the remark during a tent donation handover to the liberation struggle veterans by Finland’s Lutheran Parishes, in Windhoek this week.

The Minister of Sport, Youth and National Service, Erastus Uutoni is appealing to the Children of the Liberation Struggle to take up youth training opportunities offered to them by the government. The minister was addressing the ‘Struggle Kids’ camping at the Ndilimani Farm, outside Windhoek.

South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) boss, Shaun Abrahams, on Friday announced that former President Jacob Zuma will face criminal charges. “After consideration of the matter there are reasonable prospects of a successful prosecution of Mr Zuma,” said Abrahams at a media conference. Zuma faces 783 counts of corruption relating to a R30 billion government […]

Video footage promoting the listeriosis disease on social media are undermining efforts by the Health Ministry to contain the outbreak. Health Minister, Dr Bernhard Haufiku has condemned the actions of particularly celebrities, who are promoting the spread of listeriosis.

The government and the private sector need to work together to grow the economy. The call was made by the Chief National Development Advisor in the National Planning Commission (NPC), Sylvester Mbangu, at a one-day multi-stakeholders forum in Windhoek.

Some residents of Anker settlement in the Kunene Region are calling on government to look into their plea to relocate them due to the increased seismic activity in the area. The settlement, about 65 kilometres northwest of Kamanjab, is located in a seismic zone.

Patients at Katutura State Hospital will no longer have to sleep in corridors thanks to a donation by Ohorongo Cement. The donation, worth N$1,2 million includes, over 200 different kinds of wheelchairs, 30 hospital beds with mattresses, operating tables and seven pallets of baby disposal pads.