The Minister of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, Carl Schlettwein, is displeased by the trend of postponement of motion debates in the National Assembly. This worrying trend, he explains, results in either neglect of or indefinite delays in deliberation on issues of national concern. “I am getting worried; we are postponing everything to Monday and […]
The Olufuko Annual Cultural Festival dinner has raised more than N$200,000 which will go towards the hosting of the event. The festival will be held from the first to the seventh of July at Outapi. Businessman Johannes Kambwela pledged the highest amount of N$20,000, followed by Kambwa Trading and Rani Group with a pledge of […]
Some residents of Freedom Land in Windhoek have once again raised their complaints about a lack of national identity documents, which they say prevents them from accessing government social grants. They also want to be given ample time to settle their water bills instead of being cut off. This came to light at the City […]
About one hundred subsistence farmers in the Kavango East Region received horticulture training to profit from their produce, courtesy of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). GIZ has been offering training to subsistence farmers in the agronomy value chain for close to three years. This time around, the training involved men and women from […]
Community members have come to the aid of a vulnerable family that has been sleeping in the open at the DRC informal settlement at Swakopmund. The good samaritans, among other deeds, constructed a two-bedroom shack and donated a mobile toilet, a tent, blankets, food, and other necessities. A video of two children living in horrible […]
Dr. Job Shipululo Amupanda, a prominent political science scholar and Senior Lecturer at the University of Namibia has submitted an urgent petition to the National Assembly, calling for an immediate halt to what he terms the rushed passage of 13 Bills. The petition highlights concerns over a lack of comprehensive review and informed debate surrounding […]
The debate around whether commercial banks are profiteering from clients through what MPs call multiple unethical charges triggered intense discussion in the National Assembly. This comes after the Deputy Minister of Works and Transport, Veikko Nekundi, moved a motion on the possibility of investigating exorbitant interest rates charged by commercial banks. In their contributions, several […]
The Minister of Trade and Industrialization, Lucia Iipumbu, has presented two motions in the National Assembly to amend laws and regulations related to the Companies Act of 2004 and Close Corporations. “In the last decade, our economy and its regulatory framework have undergone massive reform. These reforms have been fundamental to our future and are […]
Several MPs in the National Assembly have resisted its current format, the N$1 million motion tabled by Swapo MP Elifa Dingara. Dingara tabled a motion proposing that every Namibian be given a million dollars to keep poverty at bay. Some lawmakers called the motion unrealistic. In his motivation, Dingara explained that the money does not […]
Farm workers who have been camping along the corridors of the Okahandja and Grootfontein Districts since 2022 are calling on the government to relocate them as a matter of urgency. The group, which was evicted from commercial farms in the area, says they are losing livestock due to a lack of grazing land and fodder. […]
