The Public Service Commission (PSC) should be positioned in such a way that it conforms to the provisions of the Constitution, is independent, and acts impartially in advising the government on human resources and public administration. These remarks were made by Commissioner Salmaan Jacobs, Chairperson of the Public Service Commission. “First of all, what we […]

The late Reverend Gert Johannes Kooper from the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was buried at Mariental, Hardap Region, over the weekend. Reverend Kooper died on July 13th, at the age of 61. He was described as a formidable name, not just in the AME Church but the country’s clergy as a whole. Senior government […]

The Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security has so far received about 90,000 identification document (ID) applications countrywide during the ongoing mass registration for national documents campaign.  The Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security, Lucia Witbooi, revealed this during a consultative meeting with the ||Kharas regional leadership held at Keetmanshoop.  […]

The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) is optimistic about reaching the 1.6 million target for registered voters in the last week of the exercise. The General Registration of Voters ends on Thursday, August 1. The commission says they have reached 81% of the set target, which is 1.3 million registered eligible voters, and with more […]

Namibians who have not yet registered to vote in the November 27 Presidential and National Assembly Elections have only three more days to do so. The Electoral Commission of Namibia’s General Registration of Voters exercise, which started on Monday, the third of June, will end on Thursday, the first of August. This week’s figures presented […]

The Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform last week confirmed an outbreak of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, commonly referred to as lung sickness, in the Kunene Region.

A two-week training of the train-the-trainer series course on renewable energy concluded at UNAM’s Jose Eduardo dos Santos campus at Ongwediva.  The training was organised by the Namibia University of Science and Technology through the Namibia Energy Institute in partnership with the Agriculture Ministry and UNDP to implement a Japanese-funded project. The project titled Strengthening […]

During the Thursday night Soccer Pitch program, the team representatives who will battle it out for the top honors promised football fans interesting encounters. In the women’s division, Ongos and Khomas Nampol will face each other for the third time this season, with Ongos Ladies winning 3-0 in the first encounter, while Nampol secured a […]