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Namibia still “searching” for “correct” land reform trajectory 32 years after?

ObserverJuly 2, 20220
Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro “This Eurocentric [capitalist] approach to land reform will never get us anywhere. It continues to protect the interests of foreigners. It continues to protect the background...
Swapo won’t betray liberation friends: Geingob

Swapo won’t betray liberation friends: Geingob

July 2, 2022
Obrein Simasiku Swapo Party President Hage Geingob has come out strongly against those expecting Namibia to turn its back against Russia in its fight against Ukraine. ‘’Namibia will not betray ...
NamRa tax fraud increases to N$36 million…10 criminal cases registered

NamRa tax fraud increases to N$36 million
…10 criminal cases registered

July 2, 2022
Obrein Simasiku About N$36 million has been discovered through a high level 90-day investigation to have been defrauded from the Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRA) through provisional tax refunds, a d...
Health ministry makes double payments to suppliers

Health ministry makes double payments to suppliers

July 2, 2022
Staff Writer Auditor general, Junias Kandjeke, found that the Ministry of Health and Social Services has made payments to suppliers amounting to N$155 533.28 during the 2020/21 financial year. ...
NCA beef and meat products find market in Ghana

NCA beef and meat products find market in Ghana

July 2, 2022
Staff Writer Meatco’s first consignment of the Namibian beef from the Northern Communal Areas (NCA) has arrived at Tema Port in Accra, Ghana. Executive Director of the Ministry of International...
MWT distances from NABTA factional squabbles

MWT distances from NABTA factional squabbles

July 2, 2022
Martin Endjala The Ministry of Works and Transport has distance itself from the Namibia Bus and Taxi Association ongoing factional leadership squabbles and would not favour one over the other. ...
Tweya questions Hambukushu treatment

Tweya questions Hambukushu treatment

July 1, 2022
Martin Endjala Swapo backbencher and member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Tjekero Tweya questioned why only the Hambukushu people cannot access the B...

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Summit looks at how women overcame difficulties

Summit looks at how women overcame difficulties

ObserverJune 29, 2022
Small retail importers not protected from counterfeits confiscation

Small retail importers not protected from counterfeits confiscation

ObserverMay 12, 2022

Mining sector prone to Illicit Financial Flows

ObserverMay 12, 2022

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ObserverJuly 2, 2022

Swapo won’t betray liberation friends: Geingob

Obrein Simasiku Swapo Party President Hage Geingob has come out strongly against those expecting Namibia to turn its back against Russia in its fight against Ukraine. ‘’Namibia will not betray ...
ObserverJuly 2, 2022

NamRa tax fraud increases to N$36 million
…10 criminal cases registered

Obrein Simasiku About N$36 million has been discovered through a high level 90-day investigation to have been defrauded from the Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRA) through provisional tax refunds, a d...
ObserverJuly 2, 2022

Health ministry makes double payments to suppliers

Staff Writer Auditor general, Junias Kandjeke, found that the Ministry of Health and Social Services has made payments to suppliers amounting to N$155 533.28 during the 2020/21 financial year. ...
ObserverJuly 2, 2022

NCA beef and meat products find market in Ghana

Staff Writer Meatco’s first consignment of the Namibian beef from the Northern Communal Areas (NCA) has arrived at Tema Port in Accra, Ghana. Executive Director of the Ministry of International...
ObserverJuly 2, 2022

MWT distances from NABTA factional squabbles

Martin Endjala The Ministry of Works and Transport has distance itself from the Namibia Bus and Taxi Association ongoing factional leadership squabbles and would not favour one over the other. ...
ObserverJuly 1, 2022

Tweya questions Hambukushu treatment

Martin Endjala Swapo backbencher and member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Tjekero Tweya questioned why only the Hambukushu people cannot access the B...

Observer Money

Small retail importers not protected from counterfeits confiscation

Small retail importers not protected from counterfeits confiscation

May 12, 2022
Tujoromajo Kasuto The Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRA), yesterday destroyed counterfeit goods valued at over N$5 million, which were confiscated following their illegal importation into the country. ...

Mining sector prone to Illicit Financial Flows

May 12, 2022
Obrein Simasiku The extraction or mining sector is one of the most vulnerable to Illicit Financial Flows (IFF), because African authorities lack the expertise and the skills to seal loopholes, whic...
Namibia, SA selected on IPU Russia/Ukraine task force

Namibia, SA selected on IPU Russia/Ukraine task force

May 12, 2022
Martin Endjala The Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) has elected Namibia and South Africa, as the only African countries to form a task force mandated to resolve the ongoing Russia and Ukraine confli...
LPM wants corporates to develop communities

LPM wants corporates to develop communities

May 12, 2022
Martin Endjala The Landless People’s Movement is questioning the level of commitment of corporates to develop local communities where they operate. LPM says businesses, particularly mining compani...
Nekongo warned not to neglect SPYL ……breaks silence on youth league endorsement

Nekongo warned not to neglect SPYL ……breaks silence on youth league endorsement

May 12, 2022
  Obrein Simasiku The Secretary of the Swapo Party Youth League may lose his influence over the organ when he goes to the National Assembly, after his appointment as a member of Parliament ...

Government accused of “greenwashing”

May 5, 2022
Tujoromajo Kasuto A survey conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Research Associate Dietrich Remmert, has accused the Namibian government of ‘’greenwashing’’ as a global lead...

Observer Sports

Summit looks at how women overcame difficulties

Summit looks at how women overcame difficulties

ObserverJune 29, 20220
Staff Writer The 12th Women Summit held over the weekend in Swakopmund focused on how women overcame various adversities and life event that enabled them to be the people they are today. The su...
Mushelenga concerned about illegal surveillance of journalists

Mushelenga concerned about illegal surveillance of journalists

ObserverMay 5, 20220
Martin Endjala Information, Communication and Technology Minister has urged journalists to continue putting more effort in their work and exposing sensitive information, despite the growing trend o...
Youth urged to take charge of their future

Youth urged to take charge of their future

ObserverMay 5, 20220
Martin Endjala Young people are urged to take charge of their future and to empower their vision by ensuring that they fulfill it. “Each generation must discover their own mission to fulfill it or ...
ECB hikes bulk power price

ECB hikes bulk power price

ObserverMay 5, 20220
Staff Writer The Electricity Control Board has announced an increase in the average bulk price by 7.3 percent from the current approved tariff of N$1.6982 per kilowatt-hour to N$1.8222 per kilowatt...

Oshikoto prioritises financial transparency ….internal audit committee coming

ObserverMay 3, 20220
The Oshikoto Regional Council has set aside N$1 000 000 for the Rural Sanitation Project. The regional council revealed this during its Annual Plan and Review Workshop for the 2020/21 financial year ...

NDF soldier threatens to kill family

ObserverMay 3, 20220
Tujomajo Kasuto A member of the Namibian Defence Force Member (NDF) was arrested on Monday after he threatened to burn the house, kill his mother, children in his homestead and then take his own li...
LPM ordered to reinstate, pay legal cost of councillors

LPM ordered to reinstate, pay legal cost of councillors

ObserverMay 3, 20220
Staff Reporter The Landless People’s Movement has lost its case in the High Court against two of its Mariental local authority councilors on Friday, April 29. LPM wanted an earlier judgement to ...

NEFF’s action a bold class conscious progressive step in support of workers

ObserverMay 1, 20220
Only after the Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) raised the illegal employment of some Chinese nationals boldly by entering the premises of Cheetah Cement were these nationals deported. It i...

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“The allegations against me are a misunderstanding”- Mwapopi

“The allegations against me are a misunderstanding”- Mwapopi

ObserverJanuary 24, 20220
“I was sabotaged” – Nghiwete on missing NSFAF records

“I was sabotaged” – Nghiwete on missing NSFAF records

ObserverNovember 26, 2021
“I remain a member of cabinet until process is concluded”- Jooste

“I remain a member of cabinet until process is concluded”- Jooste

ObserverJanuary 18, 2022
‘Rushed’ genocide deal questioned

‘Rushed’ genocide deal questioned

ObserverMay 18, 2021

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“Rotten apples” in Nampol will be exposed – Commissioner Basson

“Rotten apples” in Nampol will be exposed – Commissioner Basson

ObserverOctober 21, 2021
‘Complicated’ COVID-19 guidelines boots recoveries

‘Complicated’ COVID-19 guidelines boots recoveries

ObserverAugust 5, 2020
‘Good riddance’: Shaningwa on resignations

‘Good riddance’: Shaningwa on resignations

ObserverAugust 28, 2020

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