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As the country waits with growing anticipation for the make-up of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet, with all indications suggesting it will include DA members, attention has switched to who will play the opposition oversight role in Parliament during the seventh administration. That attention was amplified on Tuesday when 58 members of Jacob Zuma’s MK Party […]
Y-FEM Namibia Trust founder Florence /Khaxas is urging the public to carefully consider information on LGBTQI+ issues. “People have told us we are not supposed to be the way we are. “All that brainwashing and manipulation has done so much damage to us that we don’t even know who we are,” /Khaxas says. She was […]
…. Windhoek woman encourages regular check-ups after battling breast cancer Amanda Gaoses (46) first noticed something wasn’t right when she felt a lump in her right breast. She asked her husband to take a look, thinking she may be imagining it, but he also felt it. After going to a breast screening clinic at Maerua […]
Affirmative Repositioning (AR) national spokesperson George Kambala says they will go into the forthcoming November elections targeting the youth vote after the party was registered as a political party by the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) this week. “We welcome the information wholeheartedly. The process has been long, but finally young Namibians have a party […]
After a day of protest, turmoil and bloodshed, Kenyan President William Ruto addressed the nation with a message of sadness and strength. Saying “legitimate” protests against his policies had been “hijacked by a group of organised criminals,” he warned his government would use all means at its disposal to prevent a repeat of the violence […]
For nearly fifteen months, Evan Gershkovich has been locked away in a Moscow jail. Today the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter went on trial a thousand miles from the Russian capital in Yekaterinburg: the city where he was arrested on espionage charges while on a reporting trip for the Wall Street Journal. We were among […]
… Jumbos give names to each othe-Research ‘Elephants are chatty, using a wide range of sounds – from trumpeting to infrasound. By using AI to sort their varied soundscape, researchers have found they address one another by name, something it was thought only humans do.” Being addressed by name was considered exclusive to humans – […]
A persentence hearing in the trial of Jandre Dippenaar, who has been convicted on six counts of murder in connection with a road collision near the end of 2014, is scheduled to take place in the Swakopmund Regional Court on 20 August. Magistrate Gaynor Poulton postponed the presentence hearing in Dippenaar’s trial yesterday, after she […]
After 11 months with no pay or benefits over alleged misconduct, three Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) councillors will resume their duties in the Omuthiya Town Council. The three councillors – Nghipudilo ya Shiindi, Moses Amukoto and Beata Josef – will attend their first council meeting on Thursday. This is after urban and rural development […]
A man (39) from at Sikali village in the Kavango West region allegedly took his own life by drinking car battery acid, after he was called in by a village headman and elders of the Kahuti village for allegedly impregnating his niece (27). The deceased was reported to the traditional authority by the pregnant niece’s […]