Two SWAPO members have filed an urgent application to stop the party’s extraordinary congress set to start later this month. Mirjam Shituula and Selma Namboga filed the urgent case Thursday, seeking to stop the upcoming extraordinary congress and challenge SWAPO’s sixth congress held last year. Their lawyer, Boris Isaacks, has explained to NBC News that […]

Stakeholders, including politicians, traditional leaders and members of the business community in the north met at Ongwediva for a consultative workshop on the Environmental Management Act. The discussion mainly focused on the unabated sand mining in rural Namibia which is becoming an environmental scourge.

The Trade Union Congress of Namibia (TUCNA) wants the labour law amended to force big companies to build houses for their employees. TUCNA affiliates are in Walvis Bay to finalise their inputs towards the amendment of the Labour Act.

The US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) handed over grants to three community based orgnisations in Zambezi and Kavango regions. Each community organisation received N$350 000 earmarked for HIV prevention, care and support the operations of the organisations.

Vice President Nangolo Mbumba has called on green scheme projects to pay their bills with the Northern Electricity Distribution company (NORED) on time. Mbumba made the call when he inaugurated NORED’s service centre for Zambezi, Kavango East and West regions at Rundu.

The water utility says it has since 1998 grown to become one of the country’s successful parastatals. This include paying dividends to government.

A member of one of NUDO’s factions has called for the resumption of negotiations between the two opposing parties. The call was made by Josef Kauandenge of Team NUDO. The two fighting factions have been at loggerheads over leadership dispute after the failed congress earlier this year, a matter which has now ended in court.

A senior officer at the Walvis Bay Corridor Group has urged government to invest in infrastructure development through public-private partnership. Speaking at the fourth annual Public Private Partnership Conference held in Windhoek, Gilbert Boois says most governments in the world are confronted with social versus economic infrastructure which they are expected to equally address. Boois […]

African leaders will discuss progress made in the reform of the African Union Commission, at its extraordinary session taking place this weekend. President Hage Geingob will be among the attendees at AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The discussions will also include financial contributions by member states, since the AU embarked on its mission to […]

The corruption trial of the Education, Arts and Culture Minister Katrina Hanse-Himarwa has been postponed to March next year. Hanse-Himarwa is on trial on charges of corruptly using her office during her tenure as Hardap Governor by removing names of people from the government’s Mass Housing Project which she allegedly replaced with her relatives.