President Hage Geingob says without peace, development cannot take place and therefore there cannot be prosperity for the Southern African Development Committee (SADC) citizens unless decisive action is taken in addressing issues of insecurity in the Region. Geingob was speaking during the official opening of the SADC Extra-Ordinary Organ Troika Summit in Windhoek on Tuesday,…
The Swakopmund Municipality has confirmed that it will euthanise a Staffordshire Bull Terrier dog reported to have attacked a four-year-old girl at the town. The incident took place in Mondesa last week Friday at about 18h00 in Olivia Haufiku Street, where the child was at the time. According to the Namibian Police, a man who…
The Capricorn Foundation has donated 250 knitted miniature dolls to the Amos Meerkat Syllabus (AMS) project, which aims to teach morals and teach young children to recognise and report abuse. The AMS project requires thousands of these dolls each year for educational purposes at preschool centres. AMS aims to provide an updated curriculum to existing…
MultiChoice Namibia has collaborated with the Namibia Film Commission (NFC) to sponsor two Namibian female filmmakers to attend the Joburg Film Festival and to establish a Namibian chapter of Sisters Working in Film and Television (SWIFT). The Joburg Film Festival, which will feature some of the best films from around the world, will take place…
The 37th edition of the annual Nedbank Cycle Challenge was officially launched here on Tuesday. The road racing challenge which covers distances of 20 kilometres (km), 30km, 60km, and 100km for elite athletes will be held on Sunday, 12 February 2023 in Windhoek. The road race will begin at the Nedbank Campus in Fidel Castro…
Namibia’s Commonwealth Games bronze medallist and African cross-country champion, Alex Miller has joined South African-based Mountain Bike Team (MTB) Pyga Eurosteel. Pyga Eurosteel was started in 2013 by London Olympian, Phil Buys, and is one of the most established mountain bike racing teams in South Africa, consistently finishing on podiums at all the country’s high-profile…
The Ministry of Education Arts and Culture (MoEAC) on Monday announced the commencement of the 2023 OCT/NOV National examinations registration for candidates who wish to improve their previous examination results on part-time. The ministry, in a media release availed here on Monday, said the registration for both the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary and Advanced…
The body of a 47-year-old man who was attacked and killed by a hippopotamus on Friday afternoon was retrieved on Sunday, Chief Public Relations Officer in the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) Romeo Muyunda said. According to Muyunda on Monday, the incident happened at Kayeura Village in the Kavango West Region when a…
More criminal cases were recorded countrywide during the 2022/23 festive season compared to the same period of the preceding year, Namibian Police Force’s Deputy Inspector General for Operations, Major General Elias Mutota, has said. Mutota said this during the Festive Season Road Safety Campaign feedback meeting held in Windhoek on Tuesday. He said alongside the…
Chairperson of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)’s Ministerial Committee of the Organ Troika (MCO), Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, said the Committee still has a lot to do in addressing the challenges faced in various regions. Nandi-Ndaitwah said this during the official opening of the SADC MCO on Monday in the capital, where she said the SADC…