Erasmus Shalihaxwe The Press Secretary for the Presidency, Alfredo Hengari, said the notion of President Nangolo Mbumba choosing to only engage traditional leaders from the northern regions is misleading information. Hengari was responding to information that has been making rounds in the media, which states that President Mbumba has only chosen to engage and listen...
November 6, 2024
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Legal battle to ensue over dismissed //Kharas Swapo councillors
As LPM refuses to reinstate councillors Staff Reporter THE Landless People Movement (LPM) will soon be embroiled into a legal battle by the ruling party, Swapo, after it refused to heed calls to reinstate dismissed //Kharas region Swapo councillors. The party threatened to take the LPM to court on Monday, 4 February 2024, should they...
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Girlfriend of dismissed Police Officer refused to open a case – Shikongo
Staff Reporter THE Inspector General of the Namibian Police, Lieutenant General Joseph Shikongo, has said that the actions of the police reservist member, Valentino Endjala, who was captured on video dragging his pregnant girlfriend around by the hair, are a disgrace to the Namibian police force. He added that despite the difficult situation the pregnant...
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Unlawful detention case involving Chinese human trafficking suspects dismissed
Staff Reporter THE matter in which 13 suspects, mostly Chinese citizens, claimed that they were unlawfully detained for more than 48 hours, has been dismissed, and the suspects will be sent back to jail. The suspects were arrested in early October and face charges of human trafficking, fraud, money laundering, and racketeering, amounting to about...
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Menzies’s application dismissed, case removed from court roll
Samuel Shinedima THE application made by Menzies Aviation to halt the execution of the initial court order, which required them to vacate Hosea Kutako International Airport with immediate effect, has been dismissed by the High Court of Namibia. In 2022, Judge Orben Sibeya from the High Court of Namibia issued a ruling stating that the...
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Trump’s million dollar lawsuit against CNN dismissed
Reuters reports that a federal judge has thrown out Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which the former U.S. president claimed the network’s description of his election fraud as the “big lie” associated him with Adolf Hitler. In a ruling late on Friday night, U.S. Judge Raag Singhal, who was nominated by...
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‘I was judged unfairly’ – student dismissed over TikTok video
Maria Edward (18) yesterday said she was judged unfairly after she was dismissed from the Alba Chipamba Training Centre, where she was studying nursing because of a trending video on TikTok in which she is dancing in her uniform. Edward said she was dismissed on Monday because the head of the Oshikango campus said she...
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Nursing student dismissed for ‘appearing drunk’ in video
A nursing student (18) was dismissed from the Alba Chipamba Training Centre at Oshikango yesterday for appearing on social media while singing in uniform and tarnishing the image of the institution. According to the dismissal letter, signed by the head of the Oshikango campus Aina Kuutondokwa, Maria Edward was also dismissed on charges of refusing...