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Justicia Shipena Workers at the Northern Regional Electricity Distributor (Nored) will go on strike from Friday.  This is after six years without any wage increase, following the completion of all legal labour processes. The Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) said Nored employees have not received salary adjustments despite repeated engagements through recognised union structures.  The union said workers have now exercised their constitutional right to strike. MUN general secretary George Ampweya said the union views Nored's conduct as unfair, particularly in how resources are allocated. “The Union views this as fundamentally unfair and indicative of misplaced priorities, especially in circumstances…

Justicia Shipena  Modern couples are increasingly drawn to the spectacle of weddings rather than the substance of marriage, leaving many unprepared for the realities of married life, says relationship mechanic Ngamane Karuaihe-Upi. Karuaihe-Upi said people marry for many reasons beyond religion and that pretending otherwise distorts the conversation around divorce.  “Not everyone gets married because God said so. People get married because they are lonely, because of desire, because culture says so, or because of pressure linked to age," he told the Windhoek Observer on Monday.  “People get drunk on the excitement of looking good and being celebrated,” he said.…

Justicia Shipena  “Why am I not legally represented as a former minister of state? What I would like to know, and this needs to be recorded, is why the state has money to give to prosecutors but not to us?” These were the questions raised by former justice minister and fishrot accused Sacky Shanghala on Monday in the Windhoek High Court as the fishrot matter came before court for a hearing on the commencement of the trial. Shanghala told the court that there was unequal treatment between the prosecution and the accused, saying funds were available for state prosecutors while…

Allexer Namundjembo Construction of a school hall at Omuthiya Iipundi Senior Secondary School in Omuthiya, Oshikoto region, remains incomplete more than seven years after the project was first introduced. The project, which formally began in 2020, was meant to provide the school with a hall for assemblies, meetings and other activities.  To date, only the foundation has been laid. Former learners say pupils were required to contribute financially towards the construction, despite the project still standing unfinished years later. “We contributed towards the construction of the hall. We thought it would have been completed by now, especially since the school…

Renthia Kaimbi The Swakopmund municipality has approved the donation of 165 residential erven to listed beneficiaries in the DRC extensions 27, 29 and 30. The decision was ratified at a council meeting on 24 November 2025 and forms part of the municipality’s efforts to secure property rights for residents. The approval follows an earlier process in April 2023, when 805 ownership certificates were handed over to DRC residents.  That handover gave residents legal recognition of their properties, allowing them to open municipal utility accounts and build permanent structures.  It also placed an obligation on owners to pay municipal rates and…