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30 Sep

NTB running out of funds, seeking govt intervention

ObserverObserver MoneyKora Awards, Namibia Tourism Board (NTB)

Eba Kandovazu THE Namibia Tourism Board (NTB), which in 2016 lost millions to the Kora Music Award organisers for a no show, will need the Government's intervention to keep it going as of November this year. The NTB board currently only has money to pay for salaries and operations until that month. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Digu //Naobeb says the board is currently engaging Government as a shareholder to seek intervention. Sarl Mundial Telecom, a company owned by Ernest Adjovi, owner of the Kora Awards is being sued for US$ 1.5 million (N$ 23.5 million) which NTB paid in 2015…

29 Sep

IUM discontinues non-education courses at Ongwediva

ObserverUncategorisedInternational University of Management (IUM), Ongwediva

Eba Kandovazu THE International University of Management (IUM) has announced that as of next year, the Ongwediva campus will be solely devoted to the administration of Education programmes. Students currently enrolled for other programmes will be allowed to continue until they have completed their studies. No student intakes will be made other than those intending to study education from next January. IUM Communication Director, Gerry Munyama, says the decision is rooted in IUM Strategic Plan 2020-2025, which includes the strategic realignment of its programmes and overall activities as well as the utilisation of resources. "No single lecturer is at risk…

29 Sep

Alleged NIMT’s bosses killer back in the dock

ObserverUncategorisedNamibian Institute of Mining and Technology(NIMT), Windhoek High Court

Eba Kandovazu ERNST Lichtenstrasser, the man accused of brutally gunning down two executives at the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology(NIMT) in Arandis, has made another appearance in the Windhoek High Court today. Lichtenstrasser, 58, reportedly shot Eckhart Mueller, 72, and Heimo Hellwig, 60, in April 2019, sending shockwaves in the small town. The trial is before Judge Christie Liebenberg, with Deputy Prosecutor General, Antonia Verhoeff, representing the State. Lichtenstrasser denied playing any role in the alleged murders at the start of the trial. He was employed as a Senior Lecturer at the campus in Tsumeb. Lichtenstrasser faces a total…

29 Sep

5000 cattle infected with FMD, 150 dead in Zambezi

ObserverUncategorisedAgriculture, Calle Schlettwein, Water and Land Reform Minister

Eba Kandovazu A TOTAL 5000 cattle have been infected by the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the Zambezi region, since its detection in May this year. A total 150 cattle have died as a result, Agriculture, Water and Land Reform Minister, Calle Schlettwein, has announced. Schlettwein says this is despite the higher vaccination coverage in the infected herds, adding that infection rates remained high among the vaccinated cattle, which is an indication of the presence of a different FMD virus variant, which was confirmed to be a new FMD virus serotype O in August, the first time in the…

28 Sep

Kandjii-Murangi denies ‘dodgy’ Malaysian university agreement claims

ObserverUncategorisedDr Itah Kandjii-Murangi, Minister of Higher Education, Training and Innovation

Eba Kandovazu THE Minister of Higher Education, Training and Innovation, Dr Itah Kandjii-Murangi is denying allegations that she is part of a ‘secret agreement’, which would allegedly see her entering into a deal with a Malaysian university to set up a private institution linked to her, which is to be funded by Government, replacing the Namibia Training Authority(NTA). “It is not true. None of that is true”, says she emphatically when contacted for comment. Meanwhile, the Spokesperson in the ministry, Selma Ngola says she would consult the Executive Director (ED) to determine whether the matter is a ministry affair or…

28 Sep

Walvis Pupkewitz Mega Build robbers still at large

ObserverUncategorised

Tujoromajo Kasuto THE Erongo Regional Crime Investigations Coordinator, Deputy Commissioner Erastus Iikuyu, says five unidentified male suspects in the Southern Cross Security guards robbery of cash estimated at N$ 943 616.84 and other various items estimated at about N$ 24 000, are still on the run. Whether the police have been able to trace the suspects through a cell phone that belonged to one of the suspects that was left behind at the scene, Iikuyu would not say anything yet as police investigations are still on. According to police reports the robbery took place at Pupkewitz Mega Build in Walvis…

28 Sep

Pastors’ wives slapped with murder charges over deadly concoctions

ObserverUncategorisedNamibian Police, Spokesperson Deputy Commissioner Kauna Shikwambi

Eba Kandovazu THE police has confirmed the arrest of two women, barely two weeks following the arrests of their pastor husbands after they allegedly administered a deadly concoction into the rectums of three people from which they may have succumbed at Nkurenkuru. Namibian Police, Spokesperson Deputy Commissioner Kauna Shikwambi, says the two women, Corneria Sikukutu and Maria Fernando, were also part of the administration of a methylated spirit, salt, vinegar and olive oil the deceased, Evaristus Ndumba, Roberta Ndumba and Hilma Simbaranda, who are all family members. A fourth family member survived the ordeal. Shikwambi says the two women were…

27 Sep

Joint Declaration debate must have no sham heroes/heroines nor villains

ObserverUncategorisedGenocide, Nama, Ovaherero, Ovambanderu

This May the Namibian government and its German counterpart have been purported to have reached an agreement on Genocide, Apology and Reparations. An agreement which has since seen a stage managed opposing views among the descendants of the survivors of the 1904-1908 Genocide of the Nama, Ovambanderu and Ovaherero. With a section of the affected communities embracing the deal, despite having reservations about it, especially the quantum of N$18 billion offered by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany. Not as reparations as some close to the negotiations have been maintaining but as a goodwill gesture towards helping a…

27 Sep

Affected communities in Botswana are not privy and party to the joint declaration

ObserverUncategorisedBotswana Society for Nama, Ovaherero and Ovambanderu (B.O.S.N.O.O)

Kandjemuni Kamuiiri The Botswana Society for Nama, Ovaherero and Ovambanderu (B.O.S.N.O.O) Legal & Publicity Secretary, Kazeire Raurau Hangara, distances themselves from the Joint Declaration as stated by a member of the Namibian National Assembly, Dr Itah Kandjii Murangi, herself an offshoot of the Genocide exiles in Botswana. Her submissions are unfortunate and respectfully not true. “I am also happy to note here that representatives from Ovaherero/ Ovambanderu and Nama in Botswana, have been engaged and will be engaged as and when necessary at the local Traditional Chiefs, Chiefs Representatives, Negotiators and the Technical Committee Levels, the later chaired by H.E.…

27 Sep

Two succumb in Rehoboth, Windhoek accident

ObserverUncategorisedRehoboth, Windhoek

Eba Kandovazu THE Namibian police have confirmed that a medical doctor from Rehoboth as one of the persons who died in a car accident that claimed the life of another man last night around 23h00. Nampol Spokesperson, Chief Inspector Elifas Kuwinga, confirmed to the Windhoek Observers that the deceased have been identified as Tavaziva Musariri, 43,medical Dr and Adrian van Wyk, 39. It is reported that Musariri was driving a BMW in the direction of Rehoboth when he collided head on with van Wyk’s Kia, travelling in the opposite direction. “Both drivers were the only occupants in the vehicles and…