Thirty members of the Tsintsabis community in the Oshikoto region have graduated in self-employment courses. The courses, sponsored by the Gender Equality and Child Welfrace Ministry, included tailoring, leatherwork, needlework and bead weaving and ran from two weeks to three months. Cosdec facilitated the training. The graduates thanked the ministry for empowering them through skills […]
The police at Keetmanshoop in the //Karas Region want lawmakers to introduce stiffer sentences against perpetrators of domestic violence. This was said by Inspector Jochobetha Angukku at a meeting of the National Council Women Caucus held with the Berseba village residents.
The jobs of about 30 workers are in jeopardy after the Mazambala Island Lodge in the Zambezi Region was destroyed by fire. Thirty three tourists have thus far been turned away.
The Editors’ Forum of Namibia has honoured Veteran journalist Gwen Lister for her contribution to the media industry over the past 40 years. Lister received a Windhoek Declaration Award.
The bail hearing of Groot Aub Pastor, Elvis Jansen, has been postponed to 26th of this month. Jansen, who faces charges of alleged sexual intercourse with a minor, was in police custody since his arrest by the Rehoboth police last Friday. The bail hearing started in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court on Monday and was postponed […]
The opposition political party, SWANU, says the land resettlement programme should pay attention to ancestral land. In a statement, the party said the transformation and concept resettlement process should be designed to address the plight of those dispossessed of their land. It said access to land is a human rights issue and the party demands […]
The National Road Safety Council held a memorial service for people who perished in two different car accidents on the third of this month. The accidents, in which nine occupants burnt beyond recognition, occurred between Kalkrand and Rehoboth in Hardap region and between Otjiwarongo and Okahandja in Otjozondjupa region. The memorial service took place between […]
The National Assembly has adopted a motion on the Ratification of the Paris Agreement. Environment and Tourism Minister Pohamba Shifeta said Namibia handed in three projects for the funding from the United Nations Green Energy Fund. The projects include the construction of a desalination plant at a cost of 12-billion dollars, rural electrification of 200-million […]
Namibian sprinter Ananias Shikongo and his guide Even Tjiviju won the first gold medal for Namibia at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games underway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They won the medal in the men’s T11, 200 metre (m) after beating defending champion Felipe Gomes from Brazil and his guide Jonas de Lima Silva with […]
While Namibia’s football future looks stagnant some of the players affiliated to the Namibian Football Players Union are appealing to the corporate world to help them keep their jobs by sponsoring the league. Around 10 football players gathered at the Namibian Football Players Union (NAFPU) offices to plead to the Corporate World and the Government […]
