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11 Apr

Violence, death dominate weekend crime

ObserverUncategorisedViolence death dominate weekend crime

Staff Writer The weekend crime report is dominated by multiple violent crimes with five people reported dead and others involved in violent altercations that led to serious bodily harm. On Friday at about 22:30 at Okutupa bar in Karaburg in the //Kharas Region, it is alleged that Theofelus Lenga also know asRasta, died after he was stabbed in the left upper part of his chest with an unknown object. Police investigation in the murder continues. In Walvis Bay’s Kuisebmund area, a 26-year-old woman was allegedly hit with an empty beer bottle on the head by her boyfriend and caused a…

11 Apr

Toddler dies from drug overdose

ObserverUncategorisedToddler dies from drug overdose

Tujoromajo Kasuto A three-year-old girl Maria Ndapewa Shuudifonya, died from alleged drug overdose after she allegedly consumed a tablet that was left lying around. The girl from the Oshivanda Shanghatanga village in the Etayi Constituency in the Omusati Region died at the Oshakati Hospital. According to Omusati regional crime investigations coordinator, Deputy Commissioner Moses Simaho the toddler was in the house with her grandmother, when she fell asleep. When the granny woke her up, she was very weak and was taken to Oshikuku Hospital and was referred to Oshakati hospital where she died on Sunday. Simaho adds that the doctors…

11 Apr

Walvis Bay writes off pensioners debt

ObserverUncategorisedMunicipal bills of all pensioners at Walvis Bay worth 6.7 million dollars are to be written off with immediate effect, Walvis Bay writes off pensioners debt

Martin Endjala Municipal bills of all pensioners at Walvis Bay worth 6.7 million dollars are to be written off with immediate effect, as a way to relief elderly people from spiking municipal bills. This action was taken by the municipality because pensioners are unable to pay for their accounts due to the general economic difficulties in the country. Walvis Bay local authority councilor Ryan Gordon shared the news with the Windhoek Observer today. Gordon, stated that the late LPM local councilor Alfredo Stanely Bikeur tabled the motion in the council chamber to give amnesty to all pensioners in Walvis Bay,…

11 Apr

BIG Coalition disappointed in Social Protection Policy

ObserverUncategorisedBIG Coalition disappointed in Social Protection Policy, Rinaani Musutua of the Basic Income Grant Coalition

Tujoromajo Kasuto BIG Coalition says the recently launched Social Protection Policy 2021-2030 which was expected to outline comprehensive interventions to achieve the eradication of poverty is a disappointment. Rinaani Musutua of the Basic Income Grant Coalition says that the policy states that social protection must help people to “cope with the risks, vulnerabilities and shocks throughout their life cycle”. This includes poverty, illness, hunger, lack of income, inability to access education, health sanitation, housing etc and the policy documents have played a big role in reducing the poverty gap, especially the universal old age pension. However, she observes, that when…

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…