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Stefanus Nashama Affirmative Repositioning (AR) activist and 2024 Presidential Hopeful, Job Amupanda said the ruling party SWAPO is now old, tired, fatigued and unable to understand modern realities and aspirations, despite still appreciating its past achievements.Amupanda, who earlier this month was elected to serve on the City of Windhoek’s Management Committee, indicated that the ruling party is a “grandmother” that did good things while she was growing up.“It is a well-known approach of the African people that it is the responsibility of the youth to take over from their grandparents,” he said.The activist said in an interview with this publication…

Martin Endjala A motion passed in parliament today, to reappoint Auditor General Junias Kandjeke, has sent the August house into an tense debate as opposition parties questioned the rationale behind reappointing the current AG for another five-year term, given the availability of other capable candidates like his Deputy Gommes Menette. Landless Peoples Movement Leader, Bernadus Swartbooi stressed that Kandjeke has raised concerns about not having the power to hold government sectors accountable, in that public finance sectors are said to be auditing themselves which, lessens the powers of the Auditor General. This will be Kandjeke’s third reappointment in the position…

Hertta-Maria Amutenja Namibia has been given a year to resolve all findings in order to avoid a targeted Financial Action Task Force review. The country announced last month that it is making steady progress in addressing findings related to its Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism as well as the Proliferation Framework (AML/CFT/CPF) in order to maintain the integrity of the financial system. This is according to Kristian Hamutenya, the Acting Director of Financial Intelligence Centre, who said added that Namibia underwent a second peer review which was aimed at assessing the country’s compliance with the United Nations…