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07 Aug

Erongo leads in unpredictable Covid-19 cases

info_e12wt4csObserver MoneyCovid-19, Dr Kalumbi Shangula, Erongo, Minister of Health and Social Service

Staff Writer The unpredictable daily Covid-19 figures has seen Erongo region taking top spot with 64 cases and accounting for 23,4 percent of the 274 confirmed cases announced on Thursday. Erongo replaced Oshana and Zambezi who were joint leaders the previous day when the country recorded 237 new cases, with each region registering 42 cases. The composition of Thursday’s cases is 141 females and 133 males with ages ranging from five months to 100 years. According to an update by the Minister of Health and Social Service, Dr Kalumbi Shangula, on Thursday, 5 August, Walvis Bay recorded 41 new cases…

06 Aug

Criminals try their luck amid the pandemic – FIC

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TUJOROMAJO KASUTO THE Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) says Suspicious Transactions Reporting detected a 36 percent increase in fraudulent activity from members of the public and a 15,8 percent decrease from financial institutions. This was revealed by the director of the centre, Leonie Dunn, in the institution’s financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021 in which he said the review had underlined the significance of the FIC’s intelligence services as unscrupulous entrepreneurs consistently tested the environment for opportunities to take advantage of the pandemic to enrich themselves, expand and advance their enterprises through crime. “FIC’s intelligence disclosures are being…

06 Aug

Oshakati, Katima top in new Covid-19 cases

info_e12wt4csObserver MoneyDr Kalumba Shangula, Katima Mulilo, Minister of Health and Social Servives, Oshakati

Staff Writer Going by the figures released by the Minister of Health and Social Servives, Dr Kalumba Shangula, on Wednesday, Oshakati and Katima Mulilo appear to becoming the epicentres of the Covid-19 virus. From a total of 237 confirmed new cases, the two towns in Oshana and Zambezi regions had 42 new cases each, relegating the capital Windhoek and Khomas region, which recorded 36 new cases for the day, to third spot. The new distribution pattern could be attributed to the more stringent measures imposed on Windhoek during July. Nankudu in Kavango West recorded only one new case as did…

05 Aug

Lühl’s citizenship court case postponed

info_e12wt4csObserver MoneyImmigration, inistry of Home Affairs, LGBTQ+, Namibia, Phillip Lühl, Safety and Security (MHAISS)

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…

05 Aug

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

info_e12wt4csObserver MoneyBernardus Swartbooi, Henny Seibeb, Landless People’s Movement (LPM)

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…

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,…

04 Aug

Namibia wins first silver medal since 1996

info_e12wt4csObserver MoneyBeatrice Masilingi, Christine Mboma, Olympic Games

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…

03 Aug

National Assembly maintains right procedures were followed

info_e12wt4csObserver MoneyElectoral Commission of Namibia (ECN), National Assembly (NA)

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…

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…

02 Aug

Redline case starts end of August

info_e12wt4csObserver MoneyJob Shipululo Amupanda, Windhoek High Court, Windhoek’s Mayor

Tujoromajo Kasuto Windhoek’s Mayor, Job Shipululo Amupanda, says the Redline case is expected to start end of August in the Windhoek High Court. With the case Amupanda is challenging the continued existence of the Redline, also referred to as the Veterinary Cordon Fence (VCF), for more than 100 years. “The court case in which the Land Minister Calle Schlectwein and the government are fighting and defending to keep the colonial instrument, the 1896 Redline that discriminated more than 60 percent of the Namibian [population] for more than 1245 years, will officially start the case planning, before Justice Shafimana Ueitele on…