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01 Jun

FNB warns against eWallet scam

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedeWallet, FNB App, Head of Retail Transactional Banking, Jerome Namaseb

Staff Writer Jerome Namaseb, Head of Retail Transactional Banking, warns that a new scam has emerged where fraudsters access and manage customers’ eWallet accounts on the FNB App. “We have seen this new scam making the rounds and urge our customers to take note of how it works to protect themselves, he said. • first, fraudster will a select random cellphone number and attempt to link the eWallet of selected number to their own smartphone, which triggers a notification (with an OTP – one time pin) asking to confirm if customer is indeed the one attempting to link their wallet.…

29 May

Signing sham deal tantamount to committing second genocide

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedOvaherero and Nama, Signing sham deal tantamount to committing second genocide

Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro Though it has as yet not been confirmed officially by both the Namibian and German governments, it has emerged through the grapevine that the lives of thousands of Ovambanderu, Ovaherero and Nama, is no more worth than the pitiful billion Euros. Not that one can really put a price on these lives but as much accepting these as justiciable and justifiable redemption of these lives, is nothing but committing a second genocide against those have already perished from the same act in 1904-1908. It is simply and literally killing a dead person. Not to mention thousands and thousands…

29 May

Same old Soccer House shenanigans

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedCOVID-19 GRANTS TO NFA, E-Connect Digital Registration System, Exco, NFA Public Relations Officer (PRO)

Jefta M Gaoab Wonders shall never cease to happen and wonders constantly keep on happening, wrongfully at the Soccer House. We have accused the previous administration of all corrupt sorts of practices and the current administration is at the forefront, thereof. Just as we thought that football was being normalised, it’s the direct opposite and I stand to be proven otherwise. Wrong is wrong and wrong can never be right. I wonder what the values of Football House are, and if they are living according to their values and purpose in their daily operations, or as they go about their…

29 May

Shangula announces revised COVID-19 regulations

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedMonica Geingos, president Hage Geingob, SARS COV-2 PCR, Shangula announces revised COVID-19 regulations

Kandjemuni Kamuiiri Health and Social Services Minister, Kalumbi Shangula on Friday announced an extension to the current COVID-19 regulations, with minor changes to the measures, including reducing the maximum number of people to attend both indoor and outdoor events to 50, from the current 100. “The Public Health Covid-19 General Regulation as published in Government Gazette No 7522 of the 30 April 2021 remains in force. The Public Health Regulations that came into force on 1 May 2021 will expire at midnight on 31st May, 2021 and under the amended dispensation, which will start on the first of 1 June…

27 May

Kakololo to vie for WBO title

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedAfrican Boxing Union Featherweight, Natanael 'Natty' Kakolol, WBO

Staff Writer Natanael 'Natty' Kakolol is set to challenge for his first WBO title on the 12th of June, where he will face unbeaten , Oleg Malinovskyi for the vacant WBO Featherweight Intercontinental title over 12 rounds. Kakololo is the current African Boxing Union Featherweight champion who has enjoyed a great winning streak over his last fights, with impressive victories over tough opponents. The Malinovskyi challenge will however be his biggest and his toughest to date and it will determine whether he has the pedigree to compete with the very best in this division, as the win will give him…

27 May

EIF hosts Sustainable Development Awards

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedEnvironmental Investment Fund of Namibia (EIF), SMEs, Sustainable Development awards

Staff Writer The Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia (EIF) hosted this year’s edition of the Sustainable Development awards, which recognizes the outstanding contributions made by Namibians in the field of sustainable development, under the theme “accelerating the green economy transformation as we recover from Covid-19” This year the awards targeted the private sector and SMEs, community level natural resource management and utilization initiatives, research and development, youth action for sustainable development, pioneering journalism in the field of sustainable development, green banks, school in action for sustainable development, women in action for sustainable development and thought leadership. Speaking at the event…

27 May

MTC is Namibia’s most admired brand again

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedBrand Leadership, MTC, Namibia

Staff Writer MTC has been named Namibia’s Most Admired Brand for the 2nd year running. The announcement was made virtually during the annual Brand Africa Leadership announcement which took place on the 25th May, 2021 coinciding with Africa Day. This year, Brand Leadership added a new category titled Most Admired Brand during COVID in Namibia and MTC also scooped the award as the Most Admired African Brand in Namibia during COVID while the World Health Organization took number one spot for the Most Admired Global Brand in Namibia during COVID. In a surprising move, MTC was named the 2nd Most…

25 May

LPM MPs in Parliament disciplinary meeting no show …say process is un procedural

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedBernardus Swartbooi, David Nahogandja, Eneas Emvula, Henny Seibeb, LPM MPs in Parliament disciplinary meeting no show

Andrew Kathindi Landless People’s Movement (LPM) leaders Bernardus Swartbooi and Henny Seibeb did not submit themselves to a Parliamentary disciplinary committee last week after having raised objections to the process. Parliament’s spokesperson, David Nahogandja, confirmed to Windhoek Observer that Swarbooi and Seibeb did not attend a disciplinary meeting that was scheduled for last week Friday, and instead, had written a letter to Parliament through their lawyers with a list of objections. “The Standing Committee of Privileges will meet this week to decide on the way forward, Nahogandja said. LPM spokesperson Eneas Emvula when quizzed by the Windhoek Observer about the…

25 May

NAPWU clueless about Gvt retrenchment plans

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedGabes Andumba, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu), NAPWU clueless about Gvt retrenchment plans, Tonateni Shidhudhu

Kandjemuni Kamuiiri The Namibia Public Workers Union (NAPWU) says it’s not aware and has not been consulted over government plans contained in an International Monetary Fund (IMF) funding proposal to implement an early retirement scheme during financial year 2022/2023-2023/2024 as a means to contain the civil service wage bill. Although it’s not clear how many government employees will be affected if government moves ahead with the proposal contained in the IMF’s staff supports authorities’ medium-term fiscal consolidation strategy to preserve fiscal and debt sustainability, the measures are aimed at reducing its huge public service wage bill. Namibia according to government…

22 May

So-called deal delegation has simply returned home to roost

info_e12wt4csUncategorisedOvaherero and Nama, Samuel Maharero, So-called deal delegation has simply returned home to roost

Kae Tjiparuro-Matundu The month of May while it must have gone in the history of Namibia as a historic day, in the sense that Namibians, especially the descendants of the 1904-1908 genocide committed against the Ovambanderu, Ovaherero and Nama, must have been celebrated a gift of the official recognition of this genocide by the Namibian govern-ment by gifting them 8 May, the day on which the con-centration camps in which thousand were incarcerated and eventual succumb, as a remembrance day, sadly came and gone uneventfully. With the government of Namibia still dillydallying in recognising this day as Re-membrance Day of…