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The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) has denied allegations that it is employing corrupt tactics in the recruitment of registration/polling officials for voter registration and the November elections. This after activist Michael Amushelelo took to social media on Monday to allege that the ECN is employing “rampant corruption” tactics. He claimed that those working for the […]
Swapo parliamentarian and works and transport deputy minister Veikko Nekundi is under fire for calling on supporters to show him the political graves of opposition leaders McHenry Venaani and Panduleni Itula after the November election. Political analyst Henning Melber on Monday labelled Nekundi’s comments as shockingly irresponsible and requiring undeserved condemnation. “Nekundi needs to be […]
The Zambezi leadership says water sources in rural areas are drying up at a concerning rate due to the drought. The leaders, which included Zambezi regional governor Lawrence Sampofu and several constituency councillors, raised this concern during a meeting with deputy prime minister John Mutorwa, along with the regional Directorate of Disaster Management staff, on […]
The police in the Oshana region say they have noticed an increase in new online scams in the region over the past few months. This comes after two female pensioners, aged 62 and 68, were scammed out of N$50 000 and N$100 000, respectively, last week at Ondangwa and Ongwediva. An unknown person called the […]
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Donald Trump’s former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen acknowledged on his final day of testimony that he stole thousands of dollars from his former boss’s company. The admission came as Mr Trump’s lawyers sought to uncover as many unsavoury details as they could about the past conduct of the prosecution’s star witness. Under questioning from […]
Benjamin Netanyahu responded with fury to the news that he might face an arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. It was “a moral outrage of historic proportions”, he said. Israel was “waging a just war against Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organisation that perpetrated the worst attack on the Jewish people since the […]
Veteran Namibian journalist Ronelle Rademeyer, who was a former news editor of the Afrikaans newspaper Republikein, died in Windhoek on Monday evening, following a period of ill health. This was confirmed in an update by Republikein. Rademeyer is credited as the brain behind Network Media Hub’s (NMH) agricultural publication and programme Agri Monitor, the newspaper […]
Indonesia is set to host a business forum in Windhoek to strengthen economic partnership between Namibia and Indonesia. The business forum will hold a series of panel discussions to provide perspectives on strengthening business relations between Indonesia and Namibia. It was previously reported by the Namibian News Digest that trade between Namibia and Indonesia remains […]
International University of Management (IUM) founder David Namwandi says his trust, the David Namwandi Trust, has committed N$3 million to graduates as seed capital for projects that could generate jobs. Namwandi revealed this at the university’s 20th convocation ceremony in Windhoek last week. “The David Namwandi Trust is ready to receive applications for funding seed […]