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African National Congress (ANC) Secretary Fikile Mbalula has confirmed that the party will appeal the judgment of the High Court in Durban regarding the use of the name and logo of uMkhonto weSizwe. This comes after the high court ruled in favour of former president Jacob Zuma’s party. Mbalula said they had sound grounds to […]

Johannesburg, the financial capital of South Africa, has emerged as the wealthiest city on the African continent with the most HNWI (high-net-worth individuals). This is according to the 2024 Africa Wealth Report, a publication by Henley & Partners, an international wealth advisory firm, produced in collaboration with New World Wealth, a global wealth intelligence partner. […]

The Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture received a donation of 1 000 books from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) on Monday. Executive director of IPPR Graham Hopwood handed over copies of the book titled ‘A Guide to the Namibian Economy’. The 700-page book will be made available in schools and public libraries […]

South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) has lost a legal bid to stop a new party from using the name and logo of its former armed wing. The governing ANC had argued that uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), headed by ex-President Jacob Zuma, had breached trademark law. But the Durban High Court disagreed, allowing the use […]

The Israeli military’s intelligence chief has resigned, saying he took responsibility for the failures before Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Major General Aharon Haliva would retire once his successor was selected. He acknowledged in a letter that his intelligence directorate “did not live up to the task […]

An inmate serving a sentence of life imprisonment, after being convicted of a headline-grabbing murder committed in 1998, has failed with an attempt to achieve his release on parole. The date when life-term prisoner Thomas Florin was sentenced, and not the date when his offences were committed, determines under which law Florin’s release on parole […]

The mother of Faith Enkali (20), the Namibian student who went missing in the Western Cape, South Africa, last Monday, is pleading with members of the public with information on Enkali’s whereabouts to contact the family or the police. “I’m pleading with anyone who has any information on his whereabouts, messages, or who has had […]

Co-founder of the Women in Media conference held on Saturday, Limba Mupetami, says the gathering is meant to create a platform where women in the profession can share their experiences and improve their working conditions. Mupetami says it was heartwarming to see the number of people that turned up, even with the challenges organisers faced […]

Elevate Edify Life Coaching hosted a youth empowerment workshop in Windhoek under the theme ‘Are You Future Proof? Finding Your Life Purpose’, leaving many young people feeling inspired. The workshop, which took place at the Thuringerhof Hotel, attracted about 38 people between the ages of 18 and 25, who were empowered with information that would […]

An Egyptian statue more than 3 000 years old has arrived back home, after three decades since it was stolen and smuggled out of the country. The statue depicts the head of the ancient Egyptian King Ramses II, who was one of Egypt’s most powerful rulers. It is “part of a mass statue depicting King […]