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06 Aug

Protecting Your Data in the Digital Age

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Johannes Abraham Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the financial industry, making banking more efficient and accessible. However, fraudsters are also leveraging AI to create sophisticated scams that target individuals and businesses. At Letshego Holdings, we are committed to ensuring your financial security and helping you stay informed about emerging threats. Understanding AI-driven fraud and taking proactive measures can help protect your finances and personal information. How AI Fraud Affects You Fraudsters are using AI to impersonate trusted financial institutions, to deceive customers into sharing sensitive information. One of the most concerning scams is AI-powered phishing, where scammers send highly convincing…

06 Aug

Kauraisa leaves behind strong football legacy

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Erasmus Shalihaxwe The Namibia Football Association (NFA) is mourning the death of its former president Charles Kauraisa. Kauraisa, who died on 3 August 2025, was the first democratically elected president of the NFA after independence. NFA president Robert Shimooshili announced Kauraisa’s death on Tuesday. “On behalf of the executive council, management & staff, NFA and the entire Namibian football fraternity, NFA would like to extend our deepest condolences and sympathy on the passing of a true icon of our sport, Mr Charles Kauraisa. We are deeply saddened to learn of his passing on 3 August 2025. Our hearts, thoughts, and…

06 Aug

Over 790 athletes compete in SADC Corrections Games

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Allexer Namundjembo Structured sports activities promote discipline, self-esteem, and behavioural transformation, preparing inmates for reintegration in society. This was the message from home affairs, immigration, safety and security minister Lucia Iipumbu during the official opening of the fourth edition of the SADC Corrections/Prisons/Penitentiary Services Sports and Cultural Games in Windhoek on Monday. Iipumbu said the games are not only about competition but also about improving the physical and emotional health of correctional officers while supporting reform strategies and rehabilitation programmes across the region. She referenced World Health Organisation (WHO) findings on the mental toll of correctional work, saying initiatives like…

06 Aug

Paved Roads, Unpaved Lives

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There’s something to be said about Namibia’s roads. Anyone who has driven across our vast, open country knows the feeling, smooth tar under your wheels, horizons stretching endlessly, and barely a pothole in sight. In fact, our roads are ranked among the very best on the African continent. That’s no small feat for a nation as sparsely populated as ours. With a population of only about three million people, we have close to 49,000 kilometers of roads crisscrossing this wide land. Of those, around 6,600 kilometers are fully paved to international standards. For perspective, that’s roughly 16 meters of road…

05 Aug

Eco Fuel owed Namcor before my time – Dunaiski

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Justicia Shipena Former commercial manager of downstream sales and marketing at the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor), Olivia Dunaiski, says she had no authority to increase any credit limit.“I certainly increased no credit limit,” she said in an affidavit filed in the ongoing Namcor bail application at the Windhoek Magistrates Court. Dunaiski said she joined Namcor Trading, a subsidiary of Namcor Holdings, in October 2019.At that time, she said, Eco Fuel Investment CC was already conducting business with the company.She said Eco Fuel was already in arrears with a substantial amount when she started.Eco Fuel is reportedly linked to…

05 Aug

Sankwasa orders local authorities to drop Redforce

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Justicia Shipena Urban and rural development minister James Sankwasa has directed all municipalities and town councils not to renew or enter into agreements with Redforce Debt Collectors. Sankwasa said Redforce has caused economic and political problems for residents in areas where it operates. “It has been noticed that some municipalities and town councils have contracted Redforce Debt Collector Company to collect debts on their behalf from residents and businesses,” he said in a directive dated Monday. He instructed that existing contracts must be allowed to lapse. “This ministerial directive should be adhered to without fail, since it has a very…

05 Aug

Over 1.6m Namibians cannot afford healthy meals

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Justicia Shipena More than 1.6 million Namibians cannot afford a healthy diet. This is according to the 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI 2025) report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). With Namibia’s population at approximately 3 million, this means just 46.7% of citizens can afford the minimum nutritional requirements for a healthy lifestyle. The figures in the SOFI 2025 indicated an increase from last year’s estimated figures of 1.5 million people. Between 2021 and 2023, the cost of a healthy diet in Namibia rose by over 19%. In 2023 alone, food and…

05 Aug

The slow death of our towns: Namibia’s local authorities in crisis

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As Namibia heads toward the local authority elections this November, one cannot help but look around our towns and villages and ask: What has become of us? The decay is not only physical but moral, institutional, and systemic. Our local authorities, which should be the engines of development and custodians of urban dignity, have instead become symbols of mismanagement, neglect, and corruption. What we are witnessing is not just decline; it is the slow, painful death of our towns, one municipality at a time. From Dreams of Housing to Settlements of Despair Drive into almost any Namibian town today, and the first…

05 Aug

Jennifer had keys into Enercon bank account before Namcor deal

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Justicia ShipenaAnti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chief investigating officer Oberty Inambao told the court on Monday that former Namcor finance executive Jennifer Hamukwaya had access to Enercon Namibia’s bank account five months before the company entered into any agreement with the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor). Testifying in the ongoing bail hearing in the high-profile fuel corruption case, Inambao said the ACC obtained a resolution dated 26 October 2021 authorising Hamukwaya’s access to the Enercon account. “As part of the account opening documentation obtained, there was a resolution made by Enercon... in which Jennifer Hamukwaya was given access,”said Inambao. He told…

05 Aug

Stefanus says Elindi’s son lured him into fuel deal

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Justicia Shipena Self-employed plumber and accused number nine in the high-profile Namcor fuel corruption and bribery case, Leo Nandago Stefanus (36), says he was approached by Austin Elindi, son of businessman Peter Elindi, to start a petroleum company in which he would hold shares. Stefanus said Austin came to him towards the end of 2019 or early 2020 with the idea of establishing Erongo Petroleum CC. He made this statement in an affidavit submitted as part of his formal bail application at the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court. “Sometime towards the end of the year 2019 or at the beginning of the…