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06 Sep

Government to effect civil service increase in October

info_e12wt4csNational NewsGovernment’s Negotiating Team, Namibia Public Workers Union (NAPWU) and Namibia National Teachers Union (NANTU), Secretary George Simataa

Obrein Simasiku Civil servants will receive the arrears of the revised salaries, housing and transport allowance on a new notch at the end of October, while the accumulated back pay will come in November. This comes following a settlement agreement between Government’s Negotiating Team and the employees bargaining units, Namibia Public Workers Union (NAPWU) and Namibia National Teachers Union (NANTU) in August, in which a N$924 million was set aside for the benefits and salaries of the more than 100 000 civil servants. The adjustment which came as a result of protracted wage negotiations between the parties escalated to a…

06 Sep

Botswana, Namibia bi-national commission talks kick off

info_e12wt4csNational NewsBNC, Botswana, Joint Commission on Coo Operation, Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security (JPCDS), president Hage Geingob

Staff Writer The Botswana-Namibia Bi-National Commission, BNC inaugural session began today in Botswana. The BNC is a high-level bilateral platform that replaced the Joint Commission on Coo Operation and the Joint Permanent Commission on Security and Defence between the two countries through an agreement signed during the working visit by Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi to Windhoek in late January this year. Last year the two countries disbanded their Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security (JPCDS) during the 29th session at Swakopmund and elevated to a bi-national commission (BNC) on defence and security, chaired by the Heads of State of…

05 Sep

Swapo Politburo done with top three

info_e12wt4csNational Newse Dr Abraham Iyambo, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Saara Kuukongelwa-Amadhila, Tobie Aupindi, y Calle Schlettwein

Staff Writer Saara Kuukongelwa-Amadhila and incumbent vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah came through as the only candidates at today’s Swapo Party Politburo meeting held in Windhoek to endorse nominations for the position of Vice President, secretary general and the deputy secretary general. Only the position of the president will not be contested and Hage Geingob will be going into the congress unchallenged. Nandi-Ndaitwah did not need any nomination as the incumbent after she declared herself as contesting, while Kuukongelwa Amadhila was nominated by Tobie Aupindi and seconded by Calle Schlettwein. The succession battles were always fought among the older generation or…

05 Sep

40 Endombo families evicted

info_e12wt4csNational News40 Endombo families evicted, Dispute over legal ownership of the property, The landlord Christo Groenewald, Tsumeb’s Endombo compound

Obrein Simasiku “Where will we go now, this is the only place our children knew and could call home,” these were the words of some tenants evicted from Tsumeb’s Endombo compound, as hundreds of people including women and children were left homeless today as they languished in the scorching sun, with no food or water, as the messenger of court or sheriff, continued to dump their properties outside. The evictees are from 40 households. The landlord Christo Groenewald said, justice is being served after years of being barred from accessing his property as well as the millions he lost in…

05 Sep

Traditional leaders urged to avoid succession fights

info_e12wt4csNational NewsHage Geingob, Traditional leaders urged to avoid succession fights, Urban and Rural Development Minister Erastus Uutoni

Martin Endjala President Hage Geingob has urged traditional leaders to inspire their communities and to division among themselves at the 23rd annual meeting of the council of traditional leaders that started in Eenhana today. “We call on you as elders to continue to guide and to inspire communities. With your strength, with your support and with your patriotism, I am confident that Namibia and its people will overcome all challenges and obstacles and ascend to the heights of continued peace, national harmony and shared prosperity,” Geingob reiterated. Urban and Rural Development Minister Erastus Uutoni read the President’s address during the…

05 Sep

Govt gives motorists some relief

info_e12wt4csNational Newsdecrease by 120 cents per litre, Govt gives motorists some relief, MVA Levy reduced by 25%, Walvis Bay will thus become N$21.08 per litre

Tujoromajo Kasuto The Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced a price cut on Monday, which will reduce pump prices for petrol and diesel by N$1.20/l and 65 cents respectively for the month of September. The ministry also announced that the temporarily reduced levies on all petroleum products, through the reduction of the NAMCOR Levy, road user charges and fuel tax by 50% and the MVA Levy reduced by 25% will remain the same until further notice. Additionally, the Ministry has also resolved to increase the industry margin for fuel wholesalers by 20 cents per litre from N$1.08 cents per…

05 Sep

German government reveals Namibia determined with Joint Declaration

info_e12wt4csNational Newse German parliamentarians, Federal Republic of Germany, German government reveals Namibia determined with Joint Declaration, Sevim Dagdelen

Staff Writer IT is transpiring that a technical team of experts of the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, which was in the country in March, and which met its Namibian counterpart, was here to work out the modalities of implementing the Joint Declaration (JD). The behind the scenes manoevres by the government of Namibian and its German counterpart to go ahead with the implementation of the Joint Declaration has been revealed from answers which the German government has provided to questions termed as “minor” posed by German parliamentarian, Sevim Dagdelen and the parliamentary group of Die Linke, which…

05 Sep

EIF brings water relief to three communal farms

info_e12wt4csNational NewsEIF brings water relief to three communal farms, Erongo Region in the Daures Constituency, Sustainable Development Goal 6

Martin Endjala Three communal farms in the Erongo Region in the Daures Constituency received three mini-desalination units using reverse osmosis to purify water worth N$1 million from the Environmental Investment Fund (EIF). Vrede, Goeiegeluk Pos and Santamab Pos are among the three communal farms benefiting. The Erongo region Governor Andre Neville has reiterated that access to clean water is not only a basic need of mankind, but a necessity to sustain all forms of life in the world. “It is often quite easily forgotten how completely we depend on it. Human survival is dependent on Water,” the governor explained. Water…

02 Sep

Opposition not offering alternatives

info_e12wt4csNational NewsMcHenry Venaani, Namcor MD Immanuel Mulunga, Ndumba Kamwenyah, Opposition not offering alternatives

Martin Endjala The Namibian government has been advised not to ignore good policy alternatives offered by the opposition, while the latter has also been urged to formulate alternative policies rather than just always condemning government decisions. UNAM political science professor and analyst Ndumba Kamwenyah said that a recent appeal letter by the Popular Democratic Movement leader McHenry Venaani’s to the Head of State, Hage Geingob, imploring the government to introduce innovative policy measures to affect economic rejuvenation is a case in point. In the letter Venaani said that he is of the view that bold policy measures and innovative financing…

02 Sep

Geingob denies rift

info_e12wt4csNational NewsDeputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Nandi-Ndaitwah, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah

Staff Writer Swapo party President Hage Geingob has again denied continues news reports of a rift between himself and the vice president of the Party, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, ahead of the November congress. This comes after allegation that Nandi-Ndaitwah has been omitted from traveling delegations on many of Geingob’s official international trips this year. “There is simply no truth in the allegation of fallout between the two leaders. President Geingob believes in leadership that is collegial and consultative, with a healthy balance of horizontal and vertical decision making. In fact, President…