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WINDHOEK Just months after pushing the ruling party onto the curbs in the regional council and local authority elections, opposition parties have been rocked by a series of fallouts that threaten to eliminate the gains made. The biggest winners at last years polls - Landless Peoples Movement (LPM) and the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) - have struggled to maintain the decorum within their respective movements after washing their dirty political linen in public. All this comes at a time w...

11 March 2021 | Politics MATHIAS HAUFIKU WINDHOEK Politicians are the biggest contributors to the ongoing scourge of tribalism which has the potential to stir tribal and ethnic wars in the country, according to All People’s Party president Ignatius Shixwameni. Speaking during Namibian Sun’s ‘Evening Review’ show last night, he said the advent of jobs for comrades and neglect shown towards minority groups are antagonising the Namibian public. “Politicians must carry the blame, especial...

03 March 2021 | Politics HUNTED: Nudo president Ester Muinjangue is facing an onslaught from party members calling for her removal. Photo: Nampa MATHIAS HAUFIKU and JEMIMA BEUKES WINDHOEK National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) president Utjiua Muinjangue’s leadership is being tested after senior party members accused her of employing her political cronies in her office at the health ministry. She is facing accusations of nepotism after appointing political ally Elia Kandjii as her pers...

01 March 2021 | Politics NEW MANDATE: LPM has been handed the mandate to rule at Koës. At Aroab, both LPM and Swapo gained two seats. PHOTO: NAMPA ELIZABETH JOSEPH AROAB Swapo has conceded defeat in elections held in the //Karas and Hardap regions on Friday, and says it will start working hard to win back the support it lost to the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) in the regions. After a botched process during the original elections held last November, the Electoral Court ordered a re-run at...

26 February 2021 | Politics OGONE TLHAGE WINDHOEK Swapo, the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) and Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) are all bullish ahead of regional and local authority election reruns slated for today in Aroab, Koes, Stampriet and Mariental Rural. Three judges of the Electoral Court last year ordered a rerun of elections should take place in December 2020 after an Electoral Commission of Namibia bungle with ballot papers. Confidence on show The Swapo coordinator for the //Ka...

1 month - 04 March 2021 | Infrastructure ELLANIE SMITWINDHOEKThe supply of water and sanitation facilities in rural areas has improved significantly over the past three decades, according to official statistics.Since independence, a... 1 month - 17 February 2021 | Infrastructure LEANDREA LOUWWALVIS BAYThe ground-breaking ceremony and construction commencement of 121 houses at the Otweya informal settlement took place in Walvis Bay on Monday morning.The minister... 1 month - 16 February 2021 | I...

  THE countrywide protest action by the Namibian Food and Allied Workers Union (NAFAU) that was planned for Thursday continued on Friday and Saturday with severe disruption at the Dunes Mall in Walvis Bay.   The management of the Dunes Mall had no choice but to intervene and block members of the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement who disrupted the business of all retail outlets after they threatened customers while marching through other parts of the shopping centre.     On Friday, agg...

Land grabbers urged to remain calm   THE Windhoek City Police along with elements of the Namibian Police had to intervene to bring a large group of land grabbers that threatened to get unruly about being thrown from land that they claimed as their own, under control.   The land grab follows a few days after the Mayor of Windhoek, Job Amupanda from the Affirmative Repositioning movement and other councillors from the coalition led city council visited informal settlements that were severely af...

Sports The clock is ticking for the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) to reconsider the application by the Namibia Premier League (NPL) for registration as a national sports body in terms of the Namibia Sports Act 2003 (Act No. 12 of 2003) (“the Act”). Following days of uncertainty on whether or not the envisioned Namibia Premier Football League (NPFL) will kick off next month, the secretary general of the Namibia Football Association (NFA), Franco Cosmos, yesterday came out to reaffirm th...

The municipality of Walvis Bay is on the radar of the Anti-Corruption Commission of Namibia (ACC) once more. The Commission reportedly confiscated computers and other electronic data storage devices of several high ranking officials, as part of an investigation into alleged acts of corruption. News of the raid went viral yesterday, among others luring public reactions from one political party, the Affirmative Repositioning(AR) movement. As yesterday was a public holiday (Human Rights Day) no of...