…power struggles intensify between Schwartz-Gowases and Busch The Namibian Police on Wednesday wrestled company car keys from National Youth Council (NYC) director Calista Schwartz-Gowases after she allegedly refused to provide a minibus to transport staff to a meeting at Ondangwa. The instructions to confiscate the vehicle keys were given to the police by NYC executive...
The Otjiwarongo mayor has called on residents to refrain from littering. Gottlieb Shivute made this call during the Otjiwarongo clean-up campaign. As part of the efforts to make Otjiwarongo the cleanest town in Namibia, residents, including the Namibian Defence Force and other cooperating companies, joined the Otjiwarongo Municipality in cleaning up the town. With the...
Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa) consumer education practitioner Uaatjo Kaurimuje (UK) sits down with The Namibian (TN) to look at some of the most frequently asked questions about non registered microlenders in Namibia. TN: We have seen an increase in unregulated microlenders across the country. How did they evade regulatory oversight? UK: The regulator...
Staff Reporter THE Ministry of Works and Transport has issued a notice of eviction to a number of people who are inhabiting government houses illegally. This is according to the deputy minister of works and transport, who gave an update on the government’s assets register, which is currently being updated, as well as the issue...
The mining commissioner in the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Isabella Chirchir, has requested the Erongo regional police to halt Xinfeng Investment and other trucks transporting unprocessed crushed lithium ore from the Kohero mine near Omaruru. Chirchir, in a letter to police inspector general Joseph Shikongo dated 19 October, said Xinfeng lacks the necessary transport...