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Presidential candidate Ally Angula says she will pay every Namibian aged between 18 and 59 a monthly allowance of N$1 750 if elected as head of state in the forthcoming November national elections – a plan which would cost more than N$2,6 billion each month, or N$32 billion annually. Experts, reacting to the manifesto Angula […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has presented Namibia with meritorious awards for the country’s remarkable performance lowering mother-to-child transmission of HIV and reducing hepatitis B. Based on set criteria, the WHO has awarded Namibia a ‘silver tier’ status for progress on reducing hepatitis B, and a ‘bronze tier’ for the significant reduction of HIV. The […]
Swapo says it has no money to organise an extraordinary congress, which some members are legally pursuing to elect a new party president, following the death of Hage Geingob on 4 February. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has since been endorsed as Swapo’s presidential candidate in the absence of a congress, sparking constitution violation claims and calls for […]
President Nangolo Mbumba is still consulting on the way forward regarding the private member’s bills passed by both houses of parliament last year. In July last year, the National Assembly swiftly passed the private member’s bills comprising the marriage amendment bill and the definition of spouse bill with minimal amendments, garnering overwhelming support from both […]
Police inspector general Joseph Shikongo has poured cold water on assertions that police promotions favour the country’s dominant tribes. He was speaking at the graduation ceremony of 1 060 cadets at Oshakati yesterday. Shikongo said some people believe the Namibian security cluster comprises a certain tribe only, which is not the case. “Today is testimony […]
Studying the reptiles and amphibian species of the Okavango River Basin, Dr Werner Conradie found some not seen before in Angola and some newly discovered ones. During several expeditions to describe the species of the Okavango Delta, Eastern Cape conservationist Dr Werner Conradie not only wrote a PhD thesis, he also discovered at least eight […]
Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) party says the party has not received any formal communication from its expelled founder Jabulani Khumalo seeking the removal of Jacob Zuma as party president. This, after letters allegedly from Khumalo asking the IEC to remove former president Jacob Zuma from the ballot emerged on social media on Tuesday. In the letters, […]
Rescuers in South Africa say they have heard from 11 more survivors in the ruins of an apartment building that collapsed in the coastal city of George on Monday. At least five people are confirmed dead and more than 50 are missing after the under-construction five-storey building collapsed for as-yet undetermined reasons. “We are in […]
The government suspects China was behind the hack of an armed forces payroll system, the BBC understands. Defence Secretary Grant Shapps will not identify a specific culprit when he addresses MPs today, but is expected to warn of the dangers posed by cyber espionage from hostile states. The system used by the Ministry of Defence […]
The prosecution’s star witness in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial could also be its biggest liability. Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s former personal attorney, is expected to take the stand to testify against the man he once reverently referred to as “The Boss.” Cohen made the hush money payment at the centre of the case, a […]