Windhoek, Namibia News

A PAYMENT of N$10 000 that a State witness in his corruption trial deposited in his bank account in mid-2006 was part of a failed attempt to bribe him, former Ministry of Environment and Tourism official Sackey Namugongo claimed in the Windhoek Regional Court this week.

AN attempt to get the High Court to prevent the annual Damara cultural festival from being held at Okombahe this past weekend ended in defeat for traditional leader Immanuel /Gseb. An urgent application through which /Gseb, the Government-recognised Chief of the !Oe Gn Damara community, tried to get the court order was dismissed by Acting Judge ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia: Rights abuses in Zimbabwe's diamond fields are set to dominate talks, which opened yesterday and were organised by the global body responsible for preventing trade in the gems fuelling armed conflicts.

Windhoek/Maputo - Zimbabwe avoided suspension from the global certified diamond trade on Thursday after an international diamond watchdog decided to give the country more time to polish up its diamond dealings.

With the presidential and national elections just 22 days away, party flags and posters have replaced most of the billboards and signs which usually welcome visitors in the city center and beyond.

BOTH drivers a Police officer and a civilian whose vehicles plunged into the sea ahead of the President's motorcade near Swakopmund last week are facing a charge of reckless and negligent driving.

The president of the South Africa Business Enterprise Forum , Lebo Gunguluza, says transformational leadership in Namibia is the way to go to implement a holistic black economic empowerment approach.

Representatives of Zimbabwean non-governmental organizations attending a Kimberly Process Certification Scheme meeting in Namibia scrutinizing the country's management of a diamond field in the east of the country where human rights abuses and smuggling have been reported said Tuesday they were threatened by a state delegation.

Calls for an international ban on Zimbabwe's diamond sales are set to dominate this week's meeting of the global body set up to prevent trade in 'blood diamonds'. Windhoek -Pressure was mounting Monday on the international watchdog set up to combat so-called "conflict diamonds", the Kimberley Process to suspend Zimbabwe from the global diamond ...

WINDHOEK November 1 Sapa-AFP by Brigitte Weidlich Calls for an international ban on Zimbabwe's diamond sales are set to dominate this week's meeting of the global body set up to prevent trade in "blood diamonds", in a key test for the regulatory regime.

South Africa's targeted consumer inflation most probably slowed in September, drawing closer to the central bank's target band, a survey showed on Friday, but pressures lurk from higher power costs.

In the run-up to the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child - a landmark international agreement on the basic human rights of all children - UNICEF is featuring a series of stories about progress made and challenges that remain.

IN the 2007-8 financial year, the City of Windhoek allocated N$400 000 to begin the process of planning a bicycle path and lane network.

COMPLAINTS have poured in from political parties about several mistakes on the preliminary voters' roll, which had been open to scrutiny for five days until Friday.

African Stars finally turned a new page in its 57 years of existence, after local businessman Sidney Martin yesterday officially announced he has now acquired the team with a view of turning it into a commercial entity.

FORMER Deputy Minister Paulus Kapia and three fellow directors of a company in which the Swapo Party Youth League is the majority shareholder are being sued for N$2,6 million by Government.

A MAGISTRATE'S decision to grant bail to the five alleged members of a gang accused of carrying out a violent armed robbery at a farm east of Windhoek at the end of August was suspended in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.

NAMIBIA'S friendliness towards the media has dropped 12 places according to the latest press freedom index released by Reporters Without Borders yesterday.

INTEREST rate cuts have cost FNB Namibia more than N$300 million so far this year.

A SHEFFIELD University graduate fell to her death from a zip wire in Africa a ' minutes after another woman slipped during the same activity and without the safety equipment being checked again, an inquest heard.