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15 Oct

Exit impersonator denied bail over rape charges

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Eba Kandovazu A 27-year- old Oshakati man, who last Sunday allegedly raped a woman after pretending to be musician David Shikalep, also known as Exit, was denied bail when he made his first appearance in the Oshakati Magistrate’s Court today. Silver Natangwe is accused of luring a 19-year-old woman to a house, pretending to take her to Exit. Police say upon arriving, the suspect raped the woman, who he had been chatting with on Facebook pretending to be Exit. His profile on Facebook gives an impression that it belongs to Exit. The suspect also had Exit’s picture as his display…

14 Oct

Nanso finally speaks on NSFAF ‘dissolvement’

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Eba Kandovazu WEEKS after the announcement that the Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) will be reintegrated into the Ministry of Higher Education, Training and Innovation, the Namibia National Student's Organisation (Nanso) has finally pronounced itself on the matter, saying it does not support the move. Esther Shakela, Nanso Spokesperson, says Government should instead fix the 'governance predicaments' NSFAF faces and work towards ensuring that it becomes efficient and effective. Shakela adds that the organisation's submissions as a stakeholder during the consultations regarding the dissolution of NSFAF are not reflected in the final decision made for NSFAF to fall under…

14 Oct

High court grants citizenship to children of LGBTQ+ parents

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Tujoromajo Kasuto High Court Judge, Thomas Masuku, today granted citizenship to the son of Namibian, Phillip Lühl, and husband Guillermo Delgado, Yona, who was born via surrogacy in South Africa. Such ruling may essentially be in favor of their twin daughters Paula and Maya, who are also seek Namibian citizenship. Judge Masuku also dismissed the counter application brought by the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration, in which the ministry had claimed that a paternity test was needed to prove Lühl’ s biological linkage to his son. The ministry has been ordered to pay the costs of the applicants and…

14 Oct

Etosha National Park on fire since Monday

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Eba Kandovazu A FIRE that started on a neighboring farm near Okaukuejo in the Etosha National Park since this Monday is still raging on, although staff members from the Ministry of Environment, Tourism and Forestry have been dispatched to contain it. Romeo Muyunda, Spokesperson of the ministry, says the fire is burning west of Okaukuejo. It’s cause, he says is not known yet although it entered the park on Monday, from a farm. No animals have been reported dead as a result of the fire yet. Namibia has seen the prevalence of fires in recent months. Just last weekend, two…

14 Oct

Limkokwing drama takes a new twist

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Eba Kandovazu NEW information is being revealed that in fact, the lead masterminds in the establishment of a Malaysian university in Namibia is not Higher Education, Training and Innovation Minister, Itah Kandjii-Murangi, but her predecessor, David Namwandi, and the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF), Hilya Nghiwete. An anonymous document released on social media chronicles a number of engagements between Namwandi and the said university. It also alleges that Nghiwete sent students to study in Malaysia. The letter also accuses the former CEO of granting scholarships to some of her family members. It…

13 Oct

Namibia reports 15.3 percent reduction in TB cases

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Tujoromajo Kasuto THE country has reported a steady decrease in the number of TB cases in 2020 when the total number of tuberculosis (TB) cases reported was 6,537. This was a significant reduction of 15.3% from the 7718 TB cases notified in 2019. This is revealed in an Epidemiology of TB in Namibia, issued by Executive Director (ED) of the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS), Ben Nangombe. The case notification rate (CNR) in 2020, based on the burden of all forms of active TB, also decreased to 263 cases per 100,000 populations, from 314 per 100,000 in 2019.…

13 Oct

Nust to open campus in Ohangwena next year

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Eba Kandovazu AS of next year, Namibians wanting to further their studies at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (Nust) will no longer have to worry about traveling hundreds of kilometres to Windhoek if they do not wish to do so, as the university aims to establish a satellite campus in the town of Eenhana, Ohangwena next year. The campus will open its doors in the next academic year with an assortment of programmes, with particular focus on Rural Development, Natural Resources Management, Agriculture as well as Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET). The university will reportedly temporarily make…

13 Oct

Shutitdown movement organiser accused of embezzling award money

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Eba Kandovazu ONE of the prominent figures of the recently established gnti-Gender based violence movement, ShutItDown, is accused of embezzling close to N$100 000, which the movement received from the African Union Youth Envoy in February this year for the Silencing Gender-based Violence Award. Lebbeus Hashikutuva was making rounds on social media yesterday when the allegations surfaced. No criminal charges have been laid against Hashikutuva, although the movement issued a statement expressing its “deepest sympathy to everyone affected” by the incident, which they describe as “unfortunate” and “nauseating”. “We had all hoped to use the funds to truly enact change…

13 Oct

Ohangwena man denied bail after brutally stabbing girlfriend

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Tujoromajo Kasuto An Ohangwena man was today denied bail in the Magistrate Court after appearing on charges of attempted murder after he stabbed his girlfriend in various parts of the body, on Friday at the Omatunda village. According to Ohangwena Crime Investigator, Commissioner Zacharia Amakali, the girlfriend has been admitted in the Katutura State Hospital and is in a critical condition after sustaining stab wounds in the arms, right eye, breast, abdomen and right arm broken, with the knife stuck in her head. Amakali says it is unknown what exactly happened other than, “boyfriend and girlfriend things”. Meantime an inquest…

11 Oct

Ovaherero, Ovambanderu remember 117 years since issuance of extermination order

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Staff Writer Those who attended this year’s 117th commemoration of the October 2, 1904 extermination order against the Ovaherero by then Imperial Germany’s army commander, Lothar von Trotha, in the then German South West Africa, as Namibia was previously known, saw a really somber and solemn occasion. Ovaherero and Ovambanderu women, as it would behooves their culture on the occasion of also the tenth anniversary of the return of the first consignment of human remains, to typify the solemnity and somberness of the commemoration at Ozombuzovindimba in the Otjinene Constituency, where the order was issued, held a vigil in the…