Five men accused of murdering a Walvis Bay resident during a house robbery at the harbour town in June 2016 are due to hear the verdict in their trial in the Windhoek High Court in July. Judge Dinnah Usiku postponed the delivery of her judgement in the men’s trial to 8 July after hearing oral...
The City of Windhoek is on the brink of declaring a Category D Severe Water Scarcity, following an alarming announcement by Dieter Tolke, Engineering Technician: Water at the City of Windhoek. Despite the declaration of Category C Water Scarcity in June 2023, the city is now facing an even more severe water crisis in line...
Florian Wirtz scored after 84 seconds as Bayer Leverkusen made it 38 games unbeaten in all competitions with a 3-2 victory in Freiburg on Sunday. Leverkusen’s seventh league win on the bounce kept them 10 points clear of serial champions Bayern Munich with eight games to play in their quest for the club’s first ever...
Niël Terblanché In an effort to address the perennial water scarcity in the Kunene Region, the Namibian Government’s Ohamaremba-Okangwati Pipeline project has achieved a remarkable 79 percent completion rate. The Minister of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, Calle Schlettwein, announced that the pipeline, set to be fully operational by July, will supply potable water to...
The Southern Stream First Division has resumed while the protracted Black Africa case seems to be nearing an end. The start of the SSFD at the end of November last year was disrupted due to infighting between two factions of the famous club led by Tommy Adams and Kandas Paulino. Two teams representing the two...
Uranium miner, Deep Yellow has set the third quarter of this year as the time that it will make its final investment decision on its Flagship Tumas project in Namibia. Namibia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) issued Reptile Uranium Namibia (Pty) Ltd (RUN), a 100% subsidiary of Deep Yellow, with its 20-year mining licence,...
Niël Terblanché Farmers on the Hardap Irrigation Scheme are growing increasingly anxious as the critically low levels of the Hardap Dam continue to be exacerbated by a prolonged period of inadequate rainfall. The looming threat of crop failures looms large, and farmers are sounding the alarm about the dire consequences this may have on both...
The Normalization Committee (NC) of the Namibia Football Association (NFA) is poised to hand over the reins to a new leadership on Friday, marking the culmination of their mandate. The NC, acting as the electoral committee, is diligently preparing for the elections slated for November 17, a crucial step in the association’s journey towards a...
Staff Reporter THE Windhoek regional court has reserved judgment in Fabian Amukwelele’s rape allegations until next Tuesday morning. Amukwelele was arrested in 2020 after being accused of raping a woman employed in a different division of the City of Windhoek at his flat in Rocky Crest on January 11th of that year. She reportedly became...
The death toll from the earthquake in Morocco has now risen to almost 2,500 as rescuers continue to dig for survivors with their bare hands. Alex Cadier reports that the nearest city to the epicenter is Marrakesh. Local aid efforts are underway while they wait for international help to reach the worst-hit areas. The post...