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26 Nov

President Geingob to attend Shixwameni’s funeral

ObserverObserver MoneyIgnatius Shixwameni, Kavango-East Region, president Hage Geingob

Tujoromajo Kasuto The Namibian Presidency has announced that President Hage Geingob will attend the burial of late Ignatius Shixwameni on Saturday in Rundu, in the Kavango-East Region. The 55-year-old Shixwameni died on the 10th of November this year after collapsING at Parliament while attending a standing committee meeting. Last week Geingob conferred a state funeral for the late President of the All People’s Party (APP). Shixwameni served in different political leadership roles including as Swapo Party Member of Parliament from 1995-1999; Deputy Minister of Information and Broadcasting between 1997 and 1999, and Swapo Party Youth League Leader between 1987 and…

18 Nov

New ID to be used as passport in neighbouring countries

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Tujoromajo Kasuto President Hage Geingob has launched the new national identity card (ID) by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security has at State House. Launching the new look ID, the President says this is a great new beginning that will allow free movement of people around Africa, which he says is a key element of African unity as the ID will also be used as a passport for travel to neighbouring countries. He and his Botswana counterpart, President Mokgweetsi Masisi, have already agreed that the IDs could be used to travel between the two countries. The fingerprint…

18 Nov

President Geingob endorses transformation of SOEs Ministry into department

ObserverObserver MoneyMinistry of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), president Hage Geingob

Eba Kandovazu President Hage Geingob has endorsed the recommendation of the High Level Panel on the Namibian Economy (HLPNE) to dissolve the Ministry of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs). The ministry will now be transformed into a department under the Ministry of Finance. Minister Johan Jooste this afternoon told the Windhoek Observer that no job losses are expected, adding that the transformation will happen in the next three months. He says 'only time will tell' regarding his own future political career. Press Secretary Alfredo Hengari refers questions in this regard to Jooste. "Experience has shown that most of the issues encountered…

29 Oct

Geingob witnesses NDF training completion in Oshana

ObserverObserver MoneyNamibia Defence Force, president Hage Geingob

Eba Kandovazu PRESIDENT Hage Geingob was part of the delegation that today witnessed a joint field training exercise at Uulunga wa Kolondo in Oshana region. Geingob, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Namibia Defence Force officiated the final stage of the training. The President cautioned the NDF to maintain absolute combat readiness at all times, due to the ever shifting geo-political realities and new forms of conflict. "Combat readiness is an extremely important aspect of our national defense apparatus because Namibian soldiers must be adequately prepared to respond to orders or attacks at any given time. We must enhance our preparedness…

27 Oct

Geingob says hate speech is a great concern

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Tujoromajo Kasuto President Hage Geingob says he believes hate speech fuels extremist views and is a cause of great concern with the world witnessing a growing trend of extremism. He says it is in unity that strength lies and it is in pursuing policies of inclusion that will build robust processes, systems and institutions that will imbue trust, confidence and cooperation in efforts of building peaceful, prosperous and inclusive societies. “Hate has no place in society. It distracts from inherent human capacity to show compassion and uplift the human spirit,” he adds. Geingob expressed these sentiments virtually as keynote speaker…

05 Oct

Swapo CC members unbothered by ‘Go to hell’ comments

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Eba Kandovazu Swapo Party Central Committee (CC) members has vehemently denied that the “Go to hell” comments of President Hage Geingob on Saturday were directed to the members, saying the remarks were made in reference to other political issues and was not made in reference to the CC members. Mathew Mumbala, Swapo’s Coordinator for Kharas region, says Geingob was referring to the recent Ndonga Linena election fiasco, as well as some comments by opposition parliamentarians in Parliament. Mumbala says that the morale was in actual fact not low when the President entered the meeting, but that the members were caught…

09 Sep

Case opened against IPC member after ‘Geingob hate speech’

ObserverObserver MoneyIndependent Patriots for Change (IPC), Oshiwambo, president Hage Geingob

Eba Kandovazu THE state has laid criminal charges against a member of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) at the Walvis Bay police station, after he allegedly made hateful remarks towards President Hage Geingob on a WhatsApp group last weekend. Jonas Immanuel, 42, one of the former employees of saga seafood who was retrenched alongside 169 others, now faces charges pertaining to the contravention of Section 17 of the Riotous Assemblies Act, according to Erongo Crime Investigations Coordinator, Deputy Commissioner Erastus Iikuyu. Iikuyu says Immanuel is charged with incitement of public violence, defamation of character, assault by threat and crime…

03 Sep

President appoints Ombudsman, ECN members

ObserverObserver MoneyBasilius Dyakugh, Ombudsman, president Hage Geingob

Staff Writer PRESIDENT Hage Geingob has appointed Basilius Dyakugha as Ombudsman with effect from 01 October. The president also appointed Joram R. Rukambe, Elsie T. Nghikembwa and Emmerencia Leonardas members of the Electoral Commission of Namibia for five years, with effect from 16 September. According to a statement from the president’s office, the three members of the Electoral Commission were appointed in terms of subsection (21) of section 6 of the Electoral Act, 2014(Act No. 5 of 2014), under the powers vested in the President by subsection (1) of that section. “In terms of Article 90(1) of the Namibian Constitution…

17 Aug

Geingob congratulates Zambia’s President-elect

ObserverObserver MoneyHakainde Hichilema, president Hage Geingob, President-elect of Zambia

TUJOROMAJO KASUTO PRESIDENT Hage Geingob has congratulated the President-elect of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, on his victory in the Presidential Elections last Thursday. President Hichilema, a businessperson and Leader of the United Party for National Development (UPND) since 2006, beat outgoing President, Edgar Lungu, with overwhelming majority. Lungu conceded defeat. In his congratulatory message Geingob says the people of Zambia had unequivocally expressed their sovereign will through the ballot box having voted for the UPND under Hichilema’s leadership, giving it a strong mandate to steer Zambia towards further development, progress and prosperity. “On behalf of the people and Government of the…

16 Aug

President urges people to get jab

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Staff Writer PRESIDENT Hage Geingob is urging Namibians to go for vaccination to sustain the positive downward trajectory that the Covid-19 incidence curve is now showing and reach the national herd immunity of 1,5 million people. The President delivered his 33rd covid-19 public briefing on the national responses saying the past several months have been profoundly sobering and difficult for the country due to the onset of a deadly and devastating Third Wave of the pandemic mid-May. “However the last 14-day observance period has offered our nation some respite. The incidence curve is now showing a downward trajectory, with the…