Windhoek, Namibia News

MORE than 100 construction workers at the site of the five-star Eliakim Namundjebo Plaza Hotel in the Windhoek city centre yesterday downed tools, demanding that they get paid what is due to them in annual leave days and housing allowances.

ELEVEN Arrows midfielder Victor Helu died from a head wound on Saturday after being stabbed in Windhoek on Friday evening.

GOVERNMENT will not allow the labour-hire system to continue to exist in Namibia in its current form, the Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Immanuel Ngatjizeko, vowed yesterday.

HOUSE prices in Namibia continued their upward trajectory in October, showing an increase of 23 per cent compared to October last year, FNB Namibia's latest Housing Index states.

OPPOSITION parties who are dissatisfied with the conduct of Namibia's National Assembly and presidential elections at the end of last month announced yesterday that they have launched a case in the High Court to ask for a 'thorough audit' of the election results.

TRADITIONAL leaders have been urged to spearhead a campaign aimed at educating recipients of State grants to stop spending their money on alcohol.

December 14, 2009 -- The transport ministers of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa gathered here at the weekend to brainstorm on a Trans-Kalahari Rail Line that will cost 1.4 billion U. S. dollars, according to a joint communique released on Sunday.

Namibia's first Hilton Hotel will open mid-2010 in its capital city Windhoek, Hilton Worldwide says.

A SPATE of armed robberies was reported to the Police in Windhoek over the past weekend.

General of the Namibian Police wants Namibians to remain united, and to work hand-in-hand with the country's law-enforcement units against irresponsible driving on national roads this festive season.

The Corporate Communications and Marketing Manager at Air Namibia, Hellena Kapiya-Nathinge stated that some of the Air Namibia management and staff will travel and join their colleagues in Accra, the capital city of Ghana for the new route formalisation.

The United Arab Emirates continued their successful tour of Namibia by beating the hosts in both the unofficial one-day fixtures at Windhoek.

President Hifikepunye Pohamba has been re-elected, while his ruling party has won more than three fourths of the vote in disputed parliamentary polls.

Namibia, a large and sparsely populated country on Africa's south-west coast, has enjoyed stability since gaining independence in 1990 after a long struggle against rule by South Africa.

A RECORD 95,8 per cent of registered voters cast their votes in 60 of the 107 constituencies for which the Electoral Commission of Namibia had released results by lunchtime yesterday.

Opposition parties have threatened legal action over alleged irregularities in Namibia's general election in which early returns give the ruling South West Africa People's Organization a comfortable lead.

By Agnieszka Flak Windhoek - Namibia's ruling Swapo party was heading on Tuesday for another big election win, with a two-thirds majority that gives it the power to change the constitution looking likely as more votes came in.

Ruling South West Africa People's Organization is winning about three-fourths of votes cast in initial returns.

By Agnieszka Flak Windhoek - First results from Namibian elections trickled in on Monday, but too few to show if a breakaway opposition faction would end the two-thirds majority in parliament that the ruling party has held since 1995.

A TEAM of officials from the Electoral Commission of Namibia headquarters were yesterday urgently flown to the North to help with the verification of election results there.