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11 Apr

OPM executes over 90% of its budget

ObserverUncategorisedOPM executes over 90% of its budget, Prime Minster Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, The OPM received a budget N$397 598 000

Staff writer The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) last year spent N$383 773 629.84 of its budget translating into a budget execution rate of 96.5 percent for the financial year of 2021/22. Prime Minster Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila said this during her motivation for 2022/23 budget allocation. The OPM received a budget N$397,598,000 for the previous financial year of 2021/22 compared to an allocation of N$394 332 000 this financial year. In highlighting what the office achieved in the last financial year, she said: “In the area of disaster risk management, government conducted the vulnerability assessment and analysis, as is done…

11 Apr

NYS condemns malicious audio clip

ObserverUncategorisedBelinda Hamburee, NYS condemns malicious audio clip

Martin Endjala The National Youth Service (NYS) corporate affairs and marketing manager, Belinda Hamburee said an audio clip circulating on social media is malicious and devoid of any truth, adding that it intended to tarnish the reputation of the NYS. She shared these sentiments via a media statement. The audio alleged incidents of sexual harassment, abuse of power and ill-treatment of trainees by some instructors at the service center among other allege abuse claims. Hamburee stated that the purported audio clip is not new, and that there have been several such clips circulation in 2019, 2020, 2021 and now in…

10 Apr

REAL ESTATE JOINT: Two can play that game

ObserverUncategorisedREAL ESTATE JOINT: Two can play that game

Malcolm Ndjiharine Apparently the only piece of real estate young people will own in Namibia is a grave. I just feel it’s a misleading statement because there are several ways young people can own real estate and I’ll tackle a few of them one article at a time. “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This is a popular African proverb, which is a great way to get ahead in real estate as well. There are many young people who feel they cannot afford real estate because of their low qualifying…

10 Apr

I Date White Men So You Don’t Have to …Why dating in the UK feels like community service.

ObserverUncategorisedI Date White Men So You Don’t Have to ...Why dating in the UK feels like community service.

Nameya Jacobs Nothing could’ve prepared me for dating in the UK. I spent 22 years of my life in Southern Africa; I lived in Namibia until I was 19 and went on to study in South Africa until I was 22. While dating is e̶x̶h̶a̶u̶s̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ a game of trial and error regardless of where you come from, it’s slightly more confusing when you add a raging identity crisis to the dinner reservation for two. For my entire life, everyone thought I was Coloured. Not Black. Not even half Black. Coloured, and I’d made peace with whatever everyone thought I was,…

08 Apr

Investment, underdevelopment are the flipsides of Capitalism

ObserverUncategorisedInvestment underdevelopment are the flipsides of Capitalism

Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro “Today in fact if not in name, a new colonialism exists. The World Bank, the IMF...and the aid agencies of the other developed countries, together with the private lending institutions, set the terms on which Africa’s economies function , or malfunction,” wrote A. Bathily in a paper he delivered at the African Association of Political Science (AAPS) Pan-African Conference on Thirty Years of Independence Results and Prospects titled: The Contradictions of the Anti-Colonial Movements and the Roots of the Contemporary Crisis in Africa. The Pan-African Conference was held right here in Windhoek, Namibia in May 1991, when the…

08 Apr

Cheetah Cement employs Chinese without papers

ObserverUncategorisedCheetah Cement employs Chinese without papers, Police in Otjiwarongo arrested eight Chinese nationals

Staff Writer Police in Otjiwarongo arrested eight Chinese nationals - two females and six men for not being in possession of work permits. They were all arrested the Cheetah Cement manufacturing plant in Otjiwarongo. Otjozondjupa Regional police spokesperson Inspector Maureen Mbeha confirmed the arrests yesterday. “Yes, we have arrested 8 Chinese national. They are all being detained and are in police custody. They were arrested under the Immigration Act No, 7 of 1993.” Mbeha confirmed. Cheetah Cement Is located a few kilometres north of Otjiwarongo in the Otjozondjupa region. The company is a joint venture between China’s Asia-Africa Business Management…

08 Apr

Man caught with smuggled medicine from Angola

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Staff Writer 39-year-old Raul Zecca, a Namibian male was caught red-handed by the Namibian Police with pharmaceutical products that were smuggled from Angola into Namibia without a licence. Zecca, is a resident of Orutjandja residential area in Opuwo in the Kunene Region. Omusati regional crime investigations coordinator Deputy Commissioner Moses Simaho said the suspect was found in possession of pharmaceutical products for which he failed to provide a legal permit. In addition, he also failed to declare other goods that he smuggled into the country with customs. The police discovered Cypoheptadine Hydrochloride Tablets BP, Gyprone Plus Cypoheptadine, Gyprone Plus Cypoheptadine,…

08 Apr

Hubbly could soon face restrictions

ObserverUncategorisedEsther Utjiua-Muinjangue, Hubbly could soon face restrictions

Martin Endjala Tobacco use and exposure, is amongst one of the leading factors for non-communicable diseases, which is a major public health threat globally and a preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. This was said in the National Assembly by the Deputy Minister of Health and Social Services, Esther Utjiua-Muinjangue, yesterday in remembrance of World Health Day. The deputy minister express concern with the high rate of the use of tobacco products and hooker pipes or hubbly bubblies among the youth. According to World Health Organization (WHO) study carried out in 2015 over 1.1 billion people smoked tobacco, translating into…

08 Apr

SONA 2022 lacked self-critique

ObserverUncategorisedHenning Melber, Reactions to this week’s SONA 2022 has been less than flattering, SONA 2022 lacked self-critique

Martin Endjala Reactions to this week’s SONA 2022 has been less than flattering with and seen as a futile exercise to paint a too positive picture and sell meagre results as major achievements, while blaming external factors for the lack of delivery. These were the overall sentiments from analysts, the public to parliamentarians, the Windhoek Observer spoke to. Henning Melber, a political analyst spoke frankly to this publication, saying domestic policy failures can simply not just be swept under the carpet. ‘’Good governance requires an honest assessment of how to improve and must include self-critical reflections and ideas on how…

08 Apr

Orange River dividing Namibia, SA

ObserverUncategorisedAmbassador Penda Naanda, Ambassador Sabine Bohlke-Moller, Orange River dividing Namibia SA

Staff Reporter The Namibia South Africa Bi-National Commission has been called off indefinitely because the two countries could allegedly not agree on some agenda points. The Windhoek Observer is reliably informed that South Africa postponed the event that was set to start tomorrow, 9 April until 12 April protesting against the inclusion of the Orange River boundary issue on the agenda. The border of the river falls on the northern bank, the Namibian side, instead of the deepest middle mark of the river, as per international law. The current border arrangement denies Namibia to be a full sharing riparian partner…