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24 Mar

Auditor General gives Omaheke adverse audit opinion

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Tujoromajo Kasuto AUDITOR General (AG) Junias Kandjeke has given Omaheke Regional Council an adverse audit opinion for failing to present him with a fair reflection of the entity’s financial transactions for the financial year ended 31 March 2018. Kandjeke is confident that the audit evidence he obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide the basis for the opinion which is being expressed due to the following findings: Absence of acceptable financial reporting framework applicable to public interest entities and unexplained difference of one million dollars in VAT Receivable. · Double recognition of revenue (rates and charges fees) amounting to N$352,311…
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No refund claims until June ..as NamRA detects tax refund scam worth N$15m
24 Mar

No refund claims until June ..as NamRA detects tax refund scam worth N$15m

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Tujoromajo Kasuto The Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRA) has uncovered a tax refund scam involving N$15 million paid out to 122 taxpayers. The agency has initiated what could be its first major fraud investigation and has announced that significant progress and discoveries have been made. It announced that no refund claims will be processed for provisional taxpayers until 30 June 2022. The moratorium will however not affect tax refund claims of other tax types such as individual taxpayers and value added tax claims. NamRA commissioner, Sam Shivute says that they have already opened criminal cases against identified suspects, while the administrative…
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Geingob promises heaven and earth to investors
23 Mar

Geingob promises heaven and earth to investors

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PRESIDENT Hage Geingob has assured investors that they can invest in Namibia without any concern whether or not their investment including capital, machinery and know-how would be safe and that they would be allowed to repatriate profits to their home country. The president said this when he addressed the Namibia Investment Summit in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates at the side lines of the Expo 2020 Dubai. ‘’On these questions let me reassure you that not only is Namibia a rule-based democracy with membership to international investment protection conventions and instruments such as the international Investment protecting conventions and…
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23 Mar

Future of Ukraine students hangs in balance

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Martin Endjala The Ministry of Higher Education, Training and Innovation briefed the Windhoek Observer on the future of the students whose studies were interrupted by the war in Ukraine, saying they are consulting with the tertiary institutions in that country on how to proceed with the students, who had to kicked up their studies abruptly and return home. Senior Public Relations Officer in the ministry said that the curriculum of the two countries differ and that some programmes are not offered by local institutions. Selma Ngola told the Windhoek Observer that all the students from Ukraine who wish to enroll…
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Mariental Municipality probed by ACC for theft of drought relief fish
23 Mar

Mariental Municipality probed by ACC for theft of drought relief fish

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Tujoromajo Kasuto THE Mariental Municipality is under investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commision (ACC) after a case of theft was opened for fish donated in December last year by NovaNam Group of Companies to the local authority. The fish that was meant for the food programme at the town is alleged to have been used for other purposes. According to an email from ACC Senior Investigator Petros Kangameni, he informed the Mariental Chief Executive Officer, Paul Nghiwilepo that the matter is a straight forward theft case and should be reported to the police. He further advised the municipality to try and…
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Transnamib to take 3 years to stabilise revenue …as it shrugs off liquidation threats
23 Mar

Transnamib to take 3 years to stabilise revenue …as it shrugs off liquidation threats

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Tujoromajo Kasuto TRANSNAMIB Holdings Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Johny Smith says the company will need at least two to three years to stabilise revenue and move into a profitable financial position.According to their business strategy the parastatal must raise income by at least 20% per year. Smith admitted that they face challenges, but that they are committed to executing their business plan to the letter."Challenges will come and go," he adds, "but for at least the years that we have been in office, we have been able to mitigate all challenges thrown at us in amicable ways and through the…
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22 Mar

51-year-old rape, assault victim dies

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Tujoromajo Kasuto A 51-year-old Hendriana Kambikiti died after being raped and assaulted Saturday night at Oshuushu village in the Ogongo Constituency in the Omusati Region. The suspect, 27-year-old Joseph Nuujoma Petrus from the same village was arrested and charged for murder. Omusati Regional Crime Coordinator, Deputy Commisioner Moses Simaho says that Petrus struct her once on the head with a broken object and raped her. He further robbed the deceased of her Nokia cellphone valued at N$300. The cellphone was recovered. Meanwhile, also in Ogongo constituency, a 23-year-old woman is facing charges of murder and defeating the cause of justice…
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Namibians urged to be patriotic
22 Mar

Namibians urged to be patriotic

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Martin Endjala Namibia celebrated its 32nd independence anniversary yesterday in Swakopmund where President Hage Geingob called on them to be patriotic to their country and to shy away from comparing living conditions in free Namibia to be worse than those in the apartheid era. He pointed out that this mentality is not only unpatriotic but it is insulting to those who made an immense sacrifice for the country’s freedom. “Our independence is sacred and should be above our personal feelings and politics of the day, and let us learn from unwavering patriots to the struggle of liberation, they have stayed…
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Youth falling victim to dubious travel agents ……possible human trafficking at play
22 Mar

Youth falling victim to dubious travel agents ……possible human trafficking at play

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Tujoromajo Kasuto OVER a hundred Namibians, mostly youth, have been duped and abandoned in foreign countries by unscrupulous people posing as travel agents leaving them high and dry penniless in foreign countries. The ambitious youth are scammed under the pretext of being assisted with travel arrangements, losing substantial sums of money in the process. According to Tousy Tjijombo, a concerned Namibian citizen who has lived abroad and is assisting to "rescue" the stranded youth in foreign destinations, the number is constantly rising as they continue to receive more complaints from family members whose loved ones are stuck abroad. She claims…
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Benguela Gem to intensify marine diamond mining
22 Mar

Benguela Gem to intensify marine diamond mining

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Tujoromajo Kasuto The Benguela Gem, the world's most modern diamond recovery vessel, was officially unveiled in Namibia at the weekend in front of President Hage Geingob, Minister of Mines and Energy Tom Alweendo, and De Beers Group CEO Bruce Cleaver. The vessel will increase Debmarine's yearly production by 500,000 high-value carats of diamonds and create 160 jobs for Namibians, putting the diamond mining industry in supercar driving gear. The vessel will begin operations immediately far ahead of schedule. The MV Benguela Gem was built specifically to recover diamonds from the Atlantic Ocean seabed. The vessel combines the best of offshore…
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