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Namibia's tech-driven effort to bring more Namibians online during the pandemic seems brilliant. But most of Namibia’s historically marginalized native populations have been excluded. 

KENYA KAMBOWE RUNDU Swapo will not remove Bernard Esau and Sacky Shanghala from its Central Committee, and Politburo in the case of the latter, unless they are found guilty in the ongoing Fishrot scandal, party spokesperson Hilma Nicanor has said. The party is under pressure to remove the two men, implicated in the bribery scandal and in jail since November 2019, from its leadership structures. Late last year, the Politburo deliberated on the possibility of removing the two former ministers, bu...

COVID deaths still spiking   THE death toll ascribed to COVID-119 in Namibia has increased sharply with a new record number of 13 more fatalities that were reported on Tuesday.   This brings the number of fatalities reported since Sunday to 20 and the cumulative number reported since the start of the pandemic to 235.   The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula announced the deaths of an 81-year-old man, a 44-year-old man, a 36-year-old man, a 52-year-old man, a 90-year...

THE New Year started on a sad note after twelve more fatalities ascribed to COVID-19 reported on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

High demand for tests cause testing backlog   THE number of COVID-19 patients that have been admitted to the intensive care units of various hospitals in Namibia has increased significantly.   Of the 202 patients currently receiving treatment for the illness caused by SARS-CoV2, 34 are currently receiving critical care in hospitals in the Khomas and Erongo regions.   The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula also announced that 330 new cases and one COVID-19 fatality w...

Record increase in new COVID cases   NEW COVID-19 cases in Namibia reached a new record high number after 585 people had positive test results from a specimen batch of only 2 676.   At 22%, the positivity ratio observed from specimens analysed by the various laboratories is the cause for extreme concern for health authorities in Namibia.   The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula, while announcing the shocking COVID-19 statistics again beseeched everyone to observe an...

Rain brings hope to subsistence farmers   HEAVY thunderstorms over the Kavango East and Zambezi regions for the last few days where as much as 80 millimetres of rain was reported at places between Rundu and Katima Mulilo brought new hope to crop farmers.   Besides the good rains in northeastern Namibia, more downpours were reported over large parts of eastern, central, and even southern Namibia over the weekend.     GOOD RAINS: Places in especially eastern and central Namibia have received ...

17 December 2020 | Business A South African court today dismissed insurer Guardrisks appeal against a previous ruling that found it was liable pay a Cape Town cafes rejected coronavirus claim. Like other insurers in South Africa and around the world, Guardrisk, the fourth largest non-life insurer in the country and owned by Momentum Metropolitan, has been battling with clients over its rejection of claims related to the impact of the pandemic on their businesses. In South Africa, insurers argue...

Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. – from Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins penned Inversnaid, his famous cri de coeur about the need to protect wilderness in 1881, at a time when his Victorian-era, early industrialised Britain was experiencing significant social and environmental change. Hopkins was remarkably prescient in his warning, although his ...