The reputation of a children's hostel in Usakos was tested last month when local newspapers received a letter from a "concerned teacher" in which an Usakos-couple was accused of abusing the children who are living there.
Pedestrian Kefas Kahona (19) was hit by a car in Independence Avenue in Oshakati on Saturday evening, after a 29-year-old man lost control of his car.
A MAN at Okakarara, Wezemba Tjikuere, has been fined N$200 for animal cruelty after cutting off a neighbour's dog's ears and tail.
CORRUPTION has become endemic in Namibia under the Swapo government, Nudo President Kuaima Riruako charged at his party's last big election campaign meeting in Windhoek on Sunday.
RUNWAY 19, the notorious runway at Eros Airport that was used for take-off in last Sunday's air crash in which three people died, has not been surveyed for safety take-off gradients, an air safety seminar revealed on Friday.
Information about the new air force base being built for the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) near Karibib has proven hard to come by as the Ministry was unwilling to give details.
THE Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) has denied the involvement of its presidential candidate in the "scandal of April 1 [1989]" in which Swapo fighters clashed with South African forces on the eve of the implementation of Resolution 435.
YET another one bites the dust. A seemingly surprised, emotional Geraldine left the BBA house on Sunday night. Remember her? While in the house, she was the reserved girl who never had much to say.
A 30-year-old woman was murdered, allegedly by her boyfriend, at Khorixas on Tuesday afternoon, the Police have reported.
THE Congress of Democrats (CoD) says it will appoint independent auditors and lawyers to study the voters' roll, which it says contains discrepancies.
NAMIBIA'S Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Kaire Mbuende, has shot down calls for his recall, saying they were borne out of "ignorance".
EMBATTLED Public Service Commissioner Teckla Lameck and her business partner, Kongo Mokaxwa, have filed a case in the High Court to ask that N$623 490 be released out of the assets of their close corporation that have been frozen in terms of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act since July.
THE Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) has come out strongly against the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) for what it says are attempts by the NSHR to "mislead the public" and to convince international observers that Namibia's electoral process is subject to rigging.
"Namibia Highly Corrupt" screamed a newspaper headline in one of the local dailies this week, prompting many Namibians to wonder whether this is the Namibia they know or another country.
FOLLOWING the incident at Outapi, panic buttons are being pressed. The impression that is being created is that the entire country is engulfed by a fireball of political violence.
THE public media is caught up in crossfire. Having failed to politically subdue their opponents in government, opposition parties are turning their blazing guns on the public media.
CONTESTING political parties and voters should bear in mind that elections are not a time to view each other as enemies, but as competitors because all involved in the elections are compatriots, the Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Tomas Salomao, said yesterday.
NO violence was reported when Swapo and the RDP held campaign rallies at Oshakati and Ondangwa on Saturday.
THE Otjozondjupa Football League recently elected its new leadership for the 2009/2010 football season.
With the rapid growth in the tourism, hospitality and wildlife industry, tourists can now get tourism insurance whenever they travel within the borders of Namibia. Namibia's first tourism insurance company,Safari and Tourism Insurance Brokers Namibia (SATIB Namibia) officially opened its doors on the 1 August under the leadership of Johan Liebenberg. and Sodi Norval.
Namibian Police chief, Inspector General Sebastian Ndeitunga, has warned politicians who have allegedly resorted to interfering with police work to score political points, to stop forthwith.
ELECTIONS are due next week and it's time to look at the diverse promises political parties make to see how realistic they are and if the projects and plans they want to implement can be financed at all. Most parties remain vague on this.
THE Livestock Producers' Organisation (LPO) has submitted its proposals for the envisaged amendments to the financing of the Meat Board and the Small Stock Marketing Scheme.
THE Namibia Agricultural Union (NAU) has decided to broaden its structures to make it more accessible for potential new black members.
LADY Luck seems to be smiling down on Eddie. Our Namibian housemate is Head of House for the third time! Last Friday's HOH task was the final of the entire season, making him the only housemate in 'BBA: The Revolution' to be HOH 3 times. His HOH win also guarantees him a place in the finals.
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