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Ngatjizeko declared national hero, conferred state funeral
08 Mar

Ngatjizeko declared national hero, conferred state funeral

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Eba Kandovazu PRESIDENT Hage Geingo has conferred the honour of a state funeral on Immanuel Ngatjizeko, who passed away on Sunday, in a Windhoek hospital. A statement from the presidency said Ngatjizeko was conferred the honour of a national hero. Contacted for comment, Press Secretary Alfredo Hengari did not confirm whether or not Ngatjizeko would be buried at the Heroes Acre since he is declared a national hero. Geingob described the former Minister and Member of Parliament as a dedicated freedom fighter, an affable colleague and member of the Namibian Cabinet who served the people of Namibia with great passion,…
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Admission of students from Ukraine to local universities not priority now – Itah Kandjii
08 Mar

Admission of students from Ukraine to local universities not priority now – Itah Kandjii

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Tujoromajo Kasuto ITAH Kandjii Murangi, the Minister of Higher Education, says the safe return of all students in Ukraine is currently the main priority for the ministry and not their admission to local universities. “The issue of placement within local universities is something we will settle once we are assured they are all out of danger,” Kandjii asserted. Murangi further says that they are glad for those who have arrived safely and they are also aware that there are quite a number of other students still abroad and trying to make their way home. Meanwhile University of Namibia (UNAM) spokesperson…
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Part time legacy learners offered second opportunity for AS level
08 Mar

Part time legacy learners offered second opportunity for AS level

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Martin Endjala The Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture have announced that candidates who improved their marks through part-time tuition centers at NSSCO level and qualified to enter AS level for the first time on a full-time basis, will now be allowed to do so, provided they are 21 years or younger by 31 December 2022. The Executive Director of the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture Sanet Steenkamp today confirmed this in a media statement. Full-time admission of part-time candidates to the Namibia senior secondary certificate advanced subsidiary (NSSCAS) and repetition for Namibia senior secondary certificate ordinary level (NSSCO)…
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68 years for rapist “hostel father”
08 Mar

68 years for rapist “hostel father”

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Eba Kandovazu A FORMER hostel superintendent at a primary school in Otjiwarongo, Mervin Nguyapeua, was slapped with an effective 68 years in prison, for sodomising ten minor school boys, by High Court Judge. Alfred Siboleka. The 53 year-old Nguyapeua, who worked as a cleaner and cook at the school raped the children on separate incidences between 2013 and 2016. He was tried on 32 rape charges and 27 alternative charges of committing a sexual act with a child under the age of 16. He was regarded as the “hostel father” by the children. The victims and all minors, testified in-camera…
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Concern over the need to regulate cryptocurrencies
07 Mar

Concern over the need to regulate cryptocurrencies

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Moses Magadza and Clare Musonda The SADC Model Law on Public Financial Management (PFM) that the SADC Parliamentary Forum is developing has attracted more praise, with some people commending it for touching, albeit in passing, on cryptocurrencies while others have called for more guidance on the phenomenon. A cryptocurrency is a digital currency that works as a medium of exchange through a computer network. Media reports say that last year, money laundering through cryptocurrencies increased by 30 percent and involved about US$8,6 billion. Cryptocurrencies constitute a rapidly developing phenomenon that is being aggressively marketed, especially on social media platforms. Some…
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07 Mar

Local businesses need opportunity in agro-business

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Martin Endjala The Landless Peoples Movement {LPM} leader Bernadus Swartbooi took the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation for allegedly undermining the capacity of local businesses to participate in agro-businesses at the Neckartal Dam, outside Keetmanshoop. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said the minister showed her ignorance by excluding local entrepreneurs, during a visit to the Karas Region where she was selling investment deals with businesses from the United Arab Emirates. Swartbooi was addressing about 400 people at Block E in Rehoboth when he referred to Ndaithwaj's visit to the Karas Region as a joyride. "'When did she…
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Attempted suicide and 2 murders in weekend crime report
07 Mar

Attempted suicide and 2 murders in weekend crime report

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Tujoromajo Kasuto On Friday, 04 March, a 37-year-old man in the Oshana Region attempted suicide by slitting his throat with a panga at Omaalala village, Ongwediva Constituency. A police officer was summoned to investigate an incident in Omaalala that a suspect was destroying items in the house, threatening and cutting his housemates with a panga. When the suspect saw the police officers, he became more violent and attacked one of them with a panga, which the officer blocked with his left arm, causing serious injury to the officer's arm. The suspect then attempted suicide by slitting his throat and is…
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Supreme Court blasts Home Affairs for inhumane behavior against gay man
07 Mar

Supreme Court blasts Home Affairs for inhumane behavior against gay man

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Eba Kandovazu THE Supreme Court today ruled that the Home Affairs Ministry's behaviour was appalling after it declined to issue a Certificate of Identity to Mexican national Guilermo Delgado without informing him of reasons, leaving him no choice but to unexpectedly leave the country to South Africa via Botswana. Delgado, who is married to Philip Luhl, a Namibian male, says he was only informed about the ministry's decision at the Ngoma border in January 2020, when he was intending to travel to the Victoria Falls in the company of his visiting sister and companions. Although he had applied months prior,…
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Model Law on PFM could assist Parliaments tackle corruption
04 Mar

Model Law on PFM could assist Parliaments tackle corruption

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Moses Magadza The SADC Model Law on Public Financial Management (PFM) that the SADC Parliamentary Forum is developing to promote responsive, accountable and transparent use of public resources is the latest addition to the SADC Region’s arsenal against corruption. The Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, Honorable Brian Dube, has said the SADC Model Law can, among other things, help National Parliaments strengthen their PACs and stem corruption in the use of public resources. Dube is also the Deputy Secretary General of the Southern Africa Development Community Organisation of Public Accounts Committees (SADCOPAC). He…
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Recon Africa puts Venaani worries at ease
04 Mar

Recon Africa puts Venaani worries at ease

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Martin Endjala RECON Africa has assured the Popular Democratic Movement leader, McHenry Venaani that its exploration for oil in the Kavango Basin in environmentally friendly and therefore will not contaminated underground water resources or spoil the environment. This assurance was given during a high powered delegation of Recon Africa lead by its founder, Craig Steinke to Venaani this week in Windhoek, Roberto Dirkse, Venaani’s spokesman told the Windhoek Observer. Venaani, during his election campaigns in 2019 was outspoken about the promotion of a clean environment and is particular concerned about the use of environmentally friendly exploration methods in the Kavango…
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