Oshamukweni Combined School in the Ohangwena Region on Wednesday received two hostel blocks and an ablution facility valued at N.dollars 1.5 million from Kalahari Holdings. Kalahari Holdings’ Marketing Manager, Tulikki Nelulu, in a media statement issued on Wednesday said most learners are from nearby villages and travel between 15 to 20 kilometres to and from…
Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) member of parliament (MP), Elma Dienda, on Tuesday supported a motion tabled in the National Assembly to have all water debt owed by all local authorities in the country be written off by NamWater. The motion was tabled by Landless People’s Movement (LPM) MP Henny Seibeb in the National Assembly where…
Minister of Works and Transport, John Mutorwa, has lashed out at TransNamib employees, saying there is a need for the parastatal to implement strategic policy collectively aimed at improving the country’s railway sector. Speaking at a workshop on the railway institutional set-review here on Wednesday, Mutorwa fumed that there are some employees abusing public properties,…
Vice President Nangolo Mbumba says sports play a vital role in the social-economic development of any nation by enabling athletes to be physically fit and financially stable, but also to be ambassadors of their countries. Mbumba was speaking at State House in Windhoek on Wednesday where he welcomed the Twenty-Twenty (T20) Cricket Trophy which is…
The ‘Buy Local, Grow Namibia’ campaign, in conjunction with the Franco Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC) and the Local Merchant Market, will host the first-ever ‘Shop Local, Grow Namibia’ Fair on Saturday. The campaign is led by various partners such as the United Nations (UN) Namibia, Namibia Trade Forum, Team Namibia, The Namibian newspaper, and O&L…
Swapo Vice President, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitiwah, will defend her position at congress against Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, Environment Minister, Pohamba Shifeta and Defense Minister, Frans Kapofi. This was confirmed during a Swapo central committee meeting held on Saturday. By midday Saturday, only Nandi-Ndaitwah and Kuugongelwa-Amadhila were confirmed for the position and it had to take an…
President Hage Geingob, who attended and co-chaired the inaugural session of the Namibia-Botswana bi-national Commission (BNC), said the governments of the two countries are planning to agree to abolish the use of passports for travel between the two nations. Citizens of the two countries will use identity cards once the agreement is implemented. This was…
The seventh African Genesis Archery (AGA) in Namibia was successfully held at the Windhoek High School’s rugby field in the capital on Saturday. Over 150 archers competed for top honours, as well as a position in the national team that will represent Namibia at the Virtual World Invitation Tournament on 10 December 2022. The nationals,…
Brave Gladiators suffered their second succesive defat at the 2022 Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) Senior Women’s Championship on Sunday, going down 2-1 to Tanzania in the third-place play-off. The tournament, which concludes on Sunday with a final between hosts South Africa and Zambia, started on 31 August in Port Elizabeth, South Africa…
Swapo candidates must accept defeat at November’s intra party elections and rally behind whoever emerges victorious to maintain party unity, its leader, President Hage Geingob implored on Saturday. Geingob said this during the opening of the Swapo central committee (CC) meeting in the capital, where he also emphasised that Swapo is the most organised political…