11 hrs ago | The Namibian
THE executive of the Swapo Party Youth League will apologise to the party leadership tomorrow, The Namibian has learned.
THE Swapo youth league secretary, Elijah Ngurare, has escaped the latest attempt to oust him from the party after several senior leaders trained their guns on him at Friday's heated Central Committee meeting, calling the youth organisation indisciplined and divisive.
Government reveals $218m drought plan
NO FOOD ... Goats searching for grass between rocks at Kosis, a village outside Bethanie in the south, where there is no grazing and animals are dying.
Namibia: Lawsuits Must Be Last Resort
WE ALWAYS thought Asser Ntinda's lawsuit against The Namibian was a timid and a cowardly move by someone who has no scruples when it comes to defaming, disparaging and ridiculing anyone he believes to be his opponent.
Interest In Africa Requires Astute Economic Diplomacy
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba should be applauded for his decision to recall and possibly reshuffle ambassadors and high commissioners.
SMS Of The Day *THE misunderstanding of the rules of the political game is the cause of our stagnation.
SMS Of The Day *OUR leaders have became enemies of their own people, but why? You were comrades when you fought for the independence of our motherland but now that you got the chance to lead, you became bad bosses, almost colonising your fellow comrades through poor salaries for civil servants; land laws too strict; very little pensions.
WE ALWAYS thought Asser Ntinda's lawsuit against The Namibian was a timid and a cowardly move by someone who has no scruples when it comes to defaming, disparaging and ridiculing anyone he believes to be his opponent.
OUR members of parliament might differ on so many issues and even call each other all sorts of names.
SMS Of The Day *POVERTY and joblessness will be the order of the day, for as long as our elected leaders think inside the box and not outside.
Controversy over Swapo deputies
THE Swapo top leadership appointed 10 deputies to the party secretariat in a move aimed at strengthening its presidential candidate and the party's vice president Hage Geingob.
Responding to Namibia's drought crisis
JOHANNESBURG, 30 May 2013 - Namibia, already the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, is experiencing a severe drought, with some regions receiving the lowest seasonal rainfall in three decades, according to figures released by the country's meteorological service this week.
SMSes for Wednesday 29 May 2013
SMS Of The Day *ITS sad to see that in a country with a population of just over two million, over 300 000 people face hunger.
Nujoma worked hard to ensure that the engineering faculty was established and before he left office, he told me to make sure that the engineering faculty was brought about.
SMS Of The Day *I THINK it's time we up the age for access to alcohol to 21 years.
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba is said to have recalled all ambassadors and high commissioners heading Namibia's foreign missions with one or two exceptions.
Namibia: Drought-Stricken Farmers Sell Off Livestock
Some commercial and communal farmers in the Omaruru district have started to sell some of their livestock as the drought tightens its grip across the country.
TOASTING IT ... Namibian businessman Knowledge Katti, Brazilian oil company HRT's president Joe Paul, prime Minister Hage Geingob, Mines and Energy Minister Isak Katali and HRT's chief financial officer Martin Thomas Davis are seen celebrating the finding of the non-commercial oil.