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December 27, 2024
Tag: Activist
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Community activist Rosa Namises at odds with CoW over land
Community Development Worker and activist Rosa Namises has called on the City of Windhoek to allow citizens to explore and utilise unoccupied municipal areas to positively showcase the landscape. Namises made the call following what she termed unfair treatment by the City of Windhoek employees when they demolished a temporary shade structure where Namises and...
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Activist sows fear about new colonialism – Windhoek Observer
Niël Terblanché Job Amupanda stepped back into his activist shoes and started sowing fear about a new agreement between Namibia and the European Union. In a video clip released on his social media platforms, he criticised the Namibian Government for allegedly selling the country to the Europeans down the road. In his video, Amupanda referred...
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Cannabis activist sentenced to two years in prison, loses car
The president of the organisation Ganja Users of Namibia (GUN) and the Rastafari United Front, Brian Jaftha, has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and is losing his car after being convicted of dealing in cannabis. Jaftha (45) was sentenced in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court in Katutura on Monday, after magistrate Sally Salionga found him...
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Namibian Correctional Service refutes claims that social activist Michael Amushelelo is on a hunger strike
The Namibian Correctional Service has strongly refuted claims that social activist Michael Amushelelo who is currently detained, is on a hunger strike. Windhoek Correctional Facility Officer-in-Charge, Deputy Commissioner Veikko Armas says officials have engaged Amushelelo and he has confirmed that he is not on a hunger strike. This is despite Amushelelo taking to social media...
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Nature Conservation: Activist advocates intensified tree planting
Ms May Ikokwu, Chief Executive Officer, Save Our Heritage Initiative (SOHI), has advocated intensified planting of trees to not only reduce soil erosion but conserve ecosystem. Ikokwu made the call in on Thursday in Abuja an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in commemoration of World Nature Conservation Day (WNCD). The theme of...
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Rodelio Lewis – Actor, Activist, Queen
Rodelio Lewis is the kind of fiercely poetic creative who spouts quotables as though his life depends on it. Born just shy of 28 years ago, the actor, radio host, popular MC, Drag Night Namibia founder and activist responds to a question about home with the pathos and elocution of a seasoned orator. “I was...