The Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform, Calle Schlettwein, has taken aim at the private sector, whose administration has proved to be a failure in running and making the most out of the green schemes and abattoirs despite renewed empowerment efforts. Schlettwein expressed his disappointment at the ongoing five-day ministerial planning workshop in the capital,...
A prisoner serving a jail term of 49 years after being convicted of murdering a German tourist and robbing and kidnapping the tourist’s travel companions has failed with an appeal against his sentence. The Supreme Court dismissed Manfred Gariseb’s appeal against his sentence in a judgement delivered last Thursday. In the same judgement, the court...
Music awards promoter Ernest Adjovi’s company Mundial Telecom SARL was correctly ordered by a High Court judge to repay N$23,5 million to the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB), the Supreme Court has found in an appeal judgement. Mundial Telecom had to refund N$23,5 million to the NTB after the company failed to stage the All Africa...
Stefanus Nashama The African National Congress (ANC), which governs South Africa, has lost a legal battle to prevent a newly formed party, backed by former President Jacob Zuma, from participating in the general election in May this year. The party in question is called uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), named after the now-defunct armed branch of...
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz surged to victory at the Australian Grand Prix Sunday to snap Red Bull’s winning start to the season after three-time world champion Max Verstappen sensationally failed to finish. The Spaniard, who had appendicitis surgery two weeks ago and missed the last race, took the chequered flag 2.3 seconds ahead of teammate Charles...
A Chinese company that submitted an unsuccessful tender bid for the construction of a new head office for the Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa) has failed with an attempt to get a court interdict to stop the award of the building contract to a rival bidder. The application for an interdict that a joint...
Niël Terblanché Residents from some of the poorest neighbourhoods of Okahandja are expressing deep frustration and disappointment over the persistent issues of poor service delivery in their town. Their grievances, which encompass intermittent water supply, inadequate land delivery, lack of proper sanitation, and unaddressed health hazards, remain unresolved despite repeated appeals to local authorities. During...
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