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…Analysts say Swapo’s wish will not be fulfilled, predict ANC’s fate Swapo secretary general Sophia Shaningwa says the party’s main goal in the forthcoming elections is to regain its two-thirds majority. Shaningwa, speaking at a Swapo gathering at Helao Nafidi in the Ohangwena region on Saturday, said a two-thirds majority will allow Swapo to pass […]

The Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security, has served a total of 110 620 people through its mass registration programme, which ended on 31 July. Spokesperson Margaret Kalo says the initiative was aimed at registering births, receiving and processing identity (ID) document applications and issuing duplicate birth certificates. “The programme was a success, […]

Republican Party (RP) president Henk Mudge says despite misconceptions, the party is not only for white Namibians. He says the majority of its supporters are non-white. Speaking to Desert Radio last week, Mudge said over recent years about 90% of attendees at the party’s congresses were non-white. “You’re invited to see for yourself at our […]

The family of the late soul singer Isaac Hayes has ordered Donald Trump to stop playing the star’s song Hold On, I’m Coming at his campaign rallies. A letter sent to Trump and his team, and shared by Hayes’ son on social media, threatens to sue the former US President if he does not comply […]

Rapper Travis Scott has been released from custody in Paris without charge, French authorities have said, after fighting with his bodyguard. The 33-year-old US star was alleged to have attacked a security guard who attempted to break up the two men at the five-star George V hotel on Friday morning. Mr Scott was held in […]

Namibian podcast ‘Pride in a Pod’ just released their first episode. The nearly hour-long sitdown, hosted by media personality Rodelio Lewis’ drag persona, Miss Mavis Dash, and produced by activist collective Namibia Pride Consortium, included three in-studio guests and a robust discussion surrounding last month’s High Court ruling. Friedel Dausab, a queer rights activist, was […]

Drake has moved on after his feud with Kendrick Lamar. The two rappers have been locked in a war of words via a series of diss tracks in recent months, but the ‘Hotline Bling’ hitmaker’s friend and collaborator, Gordo, has insisted his pal isn’t interested in drawing out the back-and-forth. Drake (37) is content to […]

Young actor Alejandro Cooper (12) has been nominated as the best young African actor in the 2024 Sotigui Awards. Cooper starred as the young Lukas in the Ombetja Yehinga Organisation’s (OYO) most recent film, ‘Lukas’. He has been nominated alongside Seydou Sarr from Senegal, for his role in ‘Moi, Capitaine’ by Matteo Garone and Ambjulla […]

PDK band member Patrick Mwashindange, who has been spanning his solo musical career for the past four years as ‘Patrick Sikiliza’, tied the knot with longtime partner Simaneka Amos last weekend. Sikiliza told The Namibian he is confident that marriage will not get in the way of his creative endeavours. He says he and his […]

At the age of three she was already walking in her mother’s shoes.Today, radio production student Georgia Garises (19) is Miss Namibia’s second princess. She says she used to be glued to the screen of ‘Toddlers and Tiaras’ as a child. Garises, who was the youngest contestant in the national pageant, also scooped Miss Congeniality […]