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Botswana genocide victims’ descendants continue to seek their government’s support
23 Aug

Botswana genocide victims’ descendants continue to seek their government’s support

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Staff Writer Kazeire Raurau Hangara last Thursday submitted on behalf of the Botswana Society for Nama, Ovaherero and Ovambanderu (B.O.S.N.O.O), a plea to the Botswana Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Lemoganga Kwape, for support for the Diasporans in their bid for genocide reparations against Germany. Last month a delegation of Batswana of Namibian descent living in Botswana, met Kwape sensitising him on their desire to raise the issue of reparations against Germany for the genocide committed against their forebears, pleading for the support of their government as Botswana citizens in this regard. Whereupon Kwape understandably advised them to…
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GRN expects to raise millions at new quota auction
23 Aug

GRN expects to raise millions at new quota auction

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Tujoromajo Kasuto The Ministry of Finance (MoF) expects to make millions in a new round of governmental objective fishing quota auction for 392 metric ton (MT) Monk Freezer Fish. MoF Spokesperson, Tonateni Shidhudhu, says the Monk specie is the last auction for this catching season and a successful auction, similar to last auctions for Hake and Horse Mackerel after the first unsuccessful attempt earlier this year, is expected. The auction, which is meant to raise revenue for Government expenditure with a deadline for 27 August, has set a minimum price of N$10,000 per metric ton. According to the MoF, the…
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20 Aug

Challenge Namra on substance not salaries

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The key outtake from the Namibia Public Workers Union’s (Napwu) temporary clash with the Namibia Revenue Agency (Namra) is the continuous and unrealistic expectation that skilled, experienced staff needed to do technical work can be recruited on the cheap. Jobs that demand hard-to-find, specific skills, and über integrity, pay a salary commensurate with the market; there are no shortcuts. To make matters worse, the usual jealous drumbeaters in the public and media are complaining about Namra's salaries. As usual, their basis for such negative queries is aligned with their self-interest and paycheques. Namibia may be at the dawn of the…
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20 Aug

Namibians simply tiring of being beggars in their own country!

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After a disruption of close to a year, it is pleasing to see the construction of the Tauben Glenn Convenience Centre back in construction. The cost of the delay due the pandemic to the developers-cum-investors must have been enormous and regrettable, as it may have been to the rest of the Namibian economy, including the impact on unemployment with the resultant impact on social decay. Thus the resumption and continuation of the construction cannot but be welcome. So much even to a section of the wretched of the Namibian capitalist system, Kapana sellers, to which the construction has been providing…
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Swanu Politburo debunk Extra Ordinary Congress …which is slated for tomorrow (Saturday)
20 Aug

Swanu Politburo debunk Extra Ordinary Congress …which is slated for tomorrow (Saturday)

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Tujoromajo Kasuto South West Africa National Union, (Swanu) of Namibia Secretary General, Evilastus Kaaronda, says the Extra Ordinary Congress is not a Swanu event as purported and did not come from the party’s leadership. The party further says the All Branches’ meeting is “at best legally amorphous and at worst a product of lost lucidity” of its former President and [the said] Extra-Ordinary Congress Committee Chairperson, Dr Rihupisa Kandando. According to Kaaronda, as far as the party leadership is concerned, there shall be no congress, ordinary or otherwise. He further adds that, “While we understand the desperate hunger for power…
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SWANU in limbo – Kandando
19 Aug

SWANU in limbo – Kandando

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Tujoromajo Kasuto Namibia's oldest political party, South West Africa National Union, Swanu of Namibia, is holding an extra-ordinary congress on Saturday, 21 August, in the capital, under the Theme “Defending our Heritage”. The Extra-Ordinary Congress Committee Chairperson, Rihupisa Kandando, says the party has been in limbo since a motion of no confidence, in the Politburo (PB) and the Central Committee (CC) at the end of May at a meeting of some of the branches in Epukiro, in the Omaheke Region. The motion was motivated by the current party leadership being out of line with the party’s “revolutionary” wishes and aspirations,…
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Rushed Covid Regulations relaxing
18 Aug

Rushed Covid Regulations relaxing

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Tujoromajo Kasuto Namibia National Students Organisation (Nanso) Acting Spokesperson, Esther Shakela, says they are concerned with the safety and wellbeing of learners considering the pandemic has not subsided entirely. But maintains that they are aware that there remains a risk of a surge in new cases, which would put teachers and learners at risk. “We are cognisant of the fact we have lost a lot of learning time as a result of lockdowns of that were imposed the beginning of last year, we have seen that some universities like University of Namibia has increased entry points, and this means that…
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Geingob congratulates Zambia’s President-elect
17 Aug

Geingob congratulates Zambia’s President-elect

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TUJOROMAJO KASUTO PRESIDENT Hage Geingob has congratulated the President-elect of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, on his victory in the Presidential Elections last Thursday. President Hichilema, a businessperson and Leader of the United Party for National Development (UPND) since 2006, beat outgoing President, Edgar Lungu, with overwhelming majority. Lungu conceded defeat. In his congratulatory message Geingob says the people of Zambia had unequivocally expressed their sovereign will through the ballot box having voted for the UPND under Hichilema’s leadership, giving it a strong mandate to steer Zambia towards further development, progress and prosperity. “On behalf of the people and Government of the…
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Berlin court injunction necessary against Germany
17 Aug

Berlin court injunction necessary against Germany

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Staff Writer The President of Otjisuta Otjetu Oveni (Reparations is Ours), Jeremiah Tjatindi-Tjiveta, says it is necessary to institute a court injunction against Germany in a court in Berlin to stop her from negotiating in genocide talks with the Namibian government. “True the Government is adamant to proceed along the lines of the Reconciliation Agreement. My view is, it’s now or never to come together (the forces opposed to the bilateral agreement) and institute an injunction order through the Administrative Court in Berlin..to stop Germany to continue with the talks,” says Tjatindi-Tjiveta, based in Australia. The Government’s continued intransigence in…
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State enterprises grounded by pandemic
17 Aug

State enterprises grounded by pandemic

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TUJOROMAJO KASUTO PUBLIC Enterprises Minister, Leon Jooste, says the Covid-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc through the country’s economy and majority of public enterprises are experiencing the aftermath with NWR and the Namibia Airports Company gravely strained. “NWR and the Namibia Airports Company were the most severely affected but the fact is that the pandemic is affecting the entire economy and most of our public enterprises are experiencing the consequences,” Jooste says. The ministry has been urging the public enterprises to implement cost cutting measures and to approach financial institutions before they approach the shareholder for assistance. “We are currently assessing…
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