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Lühl’s citizenship court case postponed
05 Aug

Lühl’s citizenship court case postponed

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Tujoromajo Kasuto Judgment in the case of a Namibian citizen, Phillip Lühl, against the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security (MHAISS) on the discrimination of the right to citizenship for children of LGBTQ+ parents, has been post postponed to 13 October 2021. Lühl is requesting the High Court to declare that his son, born in 2019, through surrogacy in South Africa, a Namibian citizen by descent. However, the MHAISS is denying citizenship without proof of genetic linkage. Lühl states that, “the only reason why the Ministry of Home Affairs [is] refusing to accept the birth certificate is the…
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LPM leaders promise to double in NA …as Supreme Court rules in their favour
05 Aug

LPM leaders promise to double in NA …as Supreme Court rules in their favour

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Andrew Kathindi Landless People’s Movement (LPM) Leaders, Bernardus Swartbooi and Henny Seibeb, are adamant to double their presence in the National Asembly (NA) following a favourable Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday 4 August. “We hope to see the Honourable Peter Kat (Katjavivi) on the first of September, in parliament. He has no choice. He must let go of all those shenanigans that they plan in the darkness of the cover. They have no choice but to let us come back and to continue to fight,” Seibeb says. Seibeb thinks there was a plan to keep them out of the National…
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FNB offers real help in times of need
04 Aug

FNB offers real help in times of need

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“Unprecedented times call for real help and this is exactly what FNB Namibia is offering,” says Alna Booysen, FNB Premium and Consumer Head. “Not only are we extending a helping hand regarding numerous financing options, but we are also offering various options to our clients, which they need to be aware of and put in place in these trying times. This includes products and services such as wills and testaments, proxies, and funeral and life insurance policies.” Over the past few weeks, the bank has seen an alarming increase in cases where customers are faced with the incapacity or death…
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JSC sets date for interviews
04 Aug

JSC sets date for interviews

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Andrew Kathindi and Tujoromajo Kasuto The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has set 20 August as the date for interviews for the appointment of the new Ombudsman. Interviews, which were earlier set to have taken place on 20 July, were indefinitely called off after one of the shortlisted candidates was hospitalised. “The JSC has deemed it prudent to republish the list of the candidates that were shortlisted for the July 2021 sitting, which had to be postponed as stated above. The below mentioned candidates who were shortlisted on 4 June 2021, and were supposed to have been interviewed in July 2021,…
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Namibia wins first silver medal since 1996
04 Aug

Namibia wins first silver medal since 1996

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Tujoromajo Kasuto Namibia’s sprint sensation, Christine Mboma, has won the first ever Olympic medal for a Namibian woman and the first Olympic medal for Namibia since 1996. She achieved this with a time of 21.81 seconds, breaking the world under-20 record (a feat she achieved two other times at the Olympics) and earning a silver medal in the women's 200m at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Mboma came after Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah who pulled off the sprints double-double by winning the women’s 200 metres in 21.53 while the USA’s Gabby Thomas got bronze in 21.87, Whilst Namibia’s Beatrice Masilingi took…
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National Assembly maintains right procedures were followed
03 Aug

National Assembly maintains right procedures were followed

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Andrew Kathindi The National Assembly (NA) is maintaining the right procedures were followed when the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) Chairperson and Commissioners were appointed last week. Opposition members of the NA have said they will take the matter to the courts after finding the entire procedure illegal. “What I can tell you at this point is that they have said it, that they will go to court, so we are just waiting for the papers to be served,” Secretary to the NA, Lydia Kandetu, told Windhoek Observer. Quizzed on whether the right procedures were followed, Kandetu says, “I believe…
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1000 succumb to Covid in one month …as Namibia surpasses the 3000 mark in deaths
03 Aug

1000 succumb to Covid in one month …as Namibia surpasses the 3000 mark in deaths

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Tujoromajo Kasuto Namibia’s Covid-19 death toll has reached an alarming 3000 and continues to grow at a gradual pace, with the country recording over 1500 deaths in July only. Since the outbreak of the virus up to June 30, Namibia had recorded a total of 1521 deaths. The country has now exceeded the 3000 COVID-19 death mark, based on the latest figures from the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS), with a total of 3064 recorded deaths. With 1543 of them only in July. On 14 July the highest number of deaths of 150 were recorded in one day…
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02 Aug

NANSO efforts pointed in wrong direction

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The students’ union is fighting over the wrong issue. The Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) received over 22,000 applications for state funding for the 2021 academic year and rejected 16,185. The Namibia National Student Organization (NANSO) is engaging the Fund on behalf of several hundred students who feel their applications were wrongly rejected. The real fight for the union is on behalf of all student recipients of education loans, past and present. All student loans must be converted to grants with service options for repayment. Our graduates, most of whom cannot find employment in their fields after graduation, need…
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02 Aug

The importance of appointing a proxy and executor

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“Most of us have probably faced death and thought about our own mortality more often, and however daunting the prospect may be the consequences of not preparing for this inevitability can be devastating for those left behind when a family member passes away, which is something that has unfortunately happened far too often over the last few months,” says Taswald July, FNB Group Legal Advisor The bank has seen an alarming increase in cases where customers are faced with the incapacity or death of a loved one who had handled the finances and the family was left in the lurch…
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02 Aug

A peoples’ cause with no ideology!

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Is the current demand by the Ovaherero, Ovambanderu and Nama for the recognition by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, that its predecessor government of the Imperialist Capitalist State of the Third Reich, committed genocide against their forebears, and to apologise and atone for such, namely pay reparations, based on any ideology or ought it to be based on any ideology? Yours Truly Ideologically is tempted to pose this question after some soul-searching, prompted by the retrogressive legacy Namibia’s liberation struggle, which, by the admission of those engaged in it, was not based on any ideology. Other than…
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