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Swapo lawmaker Patience Masua believes the three-month notice period to get married ensures that all legal and administrative procedures are completed in a timely manner. This notice period is stipulated in the new marriage bill up for debate in the parliament. “The Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security has to conduct research on […]

Rwanda says it is not required to refund the United Kingdom (UK) after a multi-million pound migrant deal between the two countries was scrapped. New UK prime minister and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer says the plan to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda was “dead and buried”. The scheme was forged by the previous […]

The Roads Authority together with the Namibian police force have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance road safety. The signing ceremony was held in Windhoek at the police headquarters on Wednesday morning. According to Roads Authority executive director Conrad Lutombi, the signing of this MoU between the two entities is a partnership that […]

Landless People’s Movement (LPM) leader Bernadus Swartbooi has accused the government of prioritising profits through unaffordable electricity. He was speaking at a press conference in Windhoek on Wednesday. “With exorbitant profit margins at the expense of a struggling public whose water and electricity bills are out of control and unaffordable, whose livelihoods have gone down […]

Love Palm Foundation leader Victoria Shikesho has urged the youth to take charge in the upcoming November national elections. Shikesho told Desert Radio last week that young people need to step up and make decisions that will impact their futures. She said the foundation will launch a Voters Youth Conference to educate and inspire them […]

The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) is concerned about the low turnout in voter registrations for the upcoming elections as only three weeks remain. This was said yesterday by ECN chief electoral officer Peter Shaama in a media briefing. “While acknowledging slight improvement in turnout during the week of 1 to 6 July compared to […]

Political analyst Joseph Diescho says it’s concerning that Affirmative Repositioning (AR) leader Job Amupanda is preoccupied with age. Diescho said this yesterday in an interview with The Namibian while responding to the AR proposal to reduce the voting age to 16. “To be young does not qualify one to be a leader. It is not […]

A court in the United Arab Emirates has handed life sentences to 43 activists after finding them guilty of terror offences. State media said the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal convicted the defendants of “creating a terrorist organisation”. United Nations experts and human rights groups have severely criticised the mass trial. Human Rights Watch […]

The VBS bank scandal made headlines again this week when Tshifiwa Matodzi, former chairman of the VBS Mutual Bank board, pleaded guilty in the Gauteng High Court on Wednesday to 33 counts of corruption, theft, fraud, money laundering and a pattern of racketeering activities. Matodzi was sentenced to 495 years – or 15 years on […]

The Israeli military has told all residents of Gaza City to evacuate south to the central Gaza Strip, amid intensified operations in the north. Leaflets dropped by aircraft instruct “everyone in Gaza City” to leave what is described as a “dangerous combat zone” via designated safe routes – marked as two roads that lead to […]