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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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Jooste orders peace pipe for CRAN and MTC
17 Aug

Jooste orders peace pipe for CRAN and MTC

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Staff Writer Minister of Public Enterprises, Leon Jooste, has directed the chairpersons of the feuding Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) and the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran) to bury the hatchet for the sake of institutional investors. MTC and Cran have been at loggerheads over a number of issues, including the issuing of a telecommunications service licence to the City of Windhoek in 2020, which MTC labelled as ‘anti-competitive’ and against the Communications Act and the Competitions Act. Cran on the other hand claimed that MTC owed the regulator N$300 million in unpaid service levies, a claim MTC refuted. In…
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Deputy minister Kauaria laid to rest
17 Aug

Deputy minister Kauaria laid to rest

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STAFF WRITER THE late Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Veno Kauaria, was described as a luminary whose reformative and progressive contributions in the education sector enriched thousands of Namibians who will treasure it for years to come. This was said by President Hage Geingob at the memorial service in honour of Kauaria at the parliament gardens in Windhoek on Friday. Kauaria died two weeks ago at the age of 61 and was laid to rest at Okonjoka village in the Amunius constituency on Saturday. The President and the First Lady attended the buril. Geingob said the passing of “a distinguished…
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