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The world’s largest study into how childhood trauma affects the brain has offered new hope to survivors. Artificial intelligence (AI) was used to re-examine hundreds of brain scans of people who experienced abuse and acute emotional pain as children. The study, led by the University of Essex, found trauma changes how a young brain develops […]
A forty-one-year-old man, Samuel Japhet, was found dead in his bed on board the Tunacor Fishing company’s Tutungeni vessel on Tuesday. Erongo police spokesperson warrant officer Tuyenikelao Tashiya says an employee went to wake up Japhet for duties on the vessel that was docked at the Namibia Ports Authority’s Berth 4 at Walvis Bay at […]
Swapo vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has instructed branch coordinators and mobilisers to not only engage the electorate in election years. She was speaking at the party’s workshop for district coordinators and information and mobilisation officers on Wednesday. This comes a few weeks after Swapo branch coordinator Bonifatius Munango was slapped by a Mix settlement resident, […]
“Anger, hurt and resentment” were the driving forces that prompted a police officer to kill his former romantic partner by stabbing her with a knife at Keetmanshoop in June 2021. Former police officer Morgan Plaatjie (46) stated this in a written plea explanation after admitting guilt on four charges in the Windhoek High Court yesterday. […]
Former parliamentarian Engel Nawatiseb has commended private dialysis centres for providing services while government institutions are unable to do so. He says although the government has embarked on a mission to construct more dialysis centres, this should not put private institutions out of business. Nawatiseb, a Tsumeb resident, who has been battling kidney disease since […]
As we mourn a veteran of the Namibian liberation struggle, Ida Jimmy !Ha-Eros, who died on 3 April this year, I reflect on our days at Gobabis in 1979. I met this imposing figure at the female section of the Gobabis prison in May 1979. Ida was compelled by circumstance to bring her nine-month-old baby, […]
Namibia has taken a significant step towards empowering local communities in their conservation efforts with the launch of a dedicated Community Conservation Innovation Hub on Earth Day. The Namibian Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation launched the hub in Windhoek on Monday. The organisation’s executive director, John Kasaona, said the hub would provide a platform […]
Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) vice president Jennifer van den Heever has condemned the gruesome abuse of a child in the Oshana region, who was allegedly raped by his mother last week. Oshana police have reported that a woman (37) was arrested for the assault and rape of her son (9). The incident reportedly happened this […]
The Constitutional Court has issued directions to uMkhonto weSzwe (MK) party and former President Jacob Zuma to file their opposing papers by Thursday. This is in relation to the application lodged by the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) to appeal the judgment of the Electoral Court that Zuma can stand as a candidate in […]
Cyril Ramaphosa’s performance as president of South Africa has been disastrous – that’s the view of the overwhelming majority of participants in a recent poll survey. The survey conducted by African Innovation Research South Africa (AIRSA) in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town found that a striking 71.26% of participants expressed disapproval of President Ramaphosa’s performance, […]