Namibia News

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is trying to reclaim waning support in the region as he pushes for an early election which he wants later this year.

THE Ministry of Finance is facing a massive lawsuit by a local clearing agent, Onyeka Clearing and Forwarding, after it was established that officials of the ministry were involved in the disappearance of cartons of cigarettes in 2008.

An intemperate outburst by Namibia's youth and sport minister, Kazenambo Kazenambo, in which he lashed out at some of his senior Cabinet colleagues as "stupid Ovambos" who are "just like the Boers -- worse, because you are hungry, stupid", has ignited a political storm and posed sharp questions about Namibia's policy of national reconciliation.

GOVERNMENT will still rue the day it caved in to claims of compensation from mainly those who were in exile, for it has unleashed an entitlement frenzy that will never be sated.

HE paid tax on every cent he earned in 2006-07 as a consultant to UraMin, previous owners of the Trekkopje uranium deposit, Trade and Industry Minister Hage Geingob vowed yesterday.

GOVERNMENT has bargained with Areva to realise its dreams of nuclear energy: tax incentives for the French state-owned giant's Trekkopje project in exchange for a feasibility study on generating nuclear power in Namibia, informed sources have told The Namibian.

SMS Of The Day *NBC TV news presenters please send out a warning to sensitive viewers before you air 'disturbing' images at all times! Thank you.

SLAUGHTER ...The carcasses of two kudus and two hartebeest were dumped about 500 metres from the main road at the turn-off to Nina.

WINDHOEK, Namibia, February 9, 2012/African Press Organization / - On February 6, 2012, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund concluded the Article IV consultation with Namibia.1 The Namibian economy rebounded strongly in 2010 following the mild contraction in 2009, which was driven largely by a drop in diamond output.

A CHINESE resident of Namibia has paid a fine of N$20 000 and stands to lose close to half a million Namibia dollars after she was found guilty of trying to illegally take foreign currency out of Namibia.

THE prosecution's case in the main Caprivi high treason trial was closed in the High Court at Windhoek Central Prison yesterday.

SMS Of The Day *YES, taxi drivers must be treated harshly by the City Police because they don't obey the traffic rules.

There may be views that cellphones should be banned in schools, but Namibia's Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology, believes that cellphones can be used to deliver quality education, just like in developed countries, Namibia Press Agency reported.

AS the political heavyweights prepare to launch campaigns in a bid to win power and control over Oranjemund town, it is interesting to look at the contested space.

When Wendelinus Hamutenya told his father that he was gay, the then 18-year-old was packed off to the psychiatric ward of the Windhoek Central Hospital.

SMS Of The Day *WE are experiencing good rain resulting in flooding and there have been reports of people drowning while swimming, catching fish or attempting to pass through water to get to their destination.

BLAGNAC, FRANCE: Air Namibia on Monday announced it has placed an order for two Airbus aircraft to replace the two Boeing 737-500s currently in its fleet.

IT is easy to dismiss the racial and tribal outbursts of Kazenambo Kazenambo as rants of an apparently lunatic, erratic or maverick government minister.

A WINDHOEK resident convicted of murdering his daughter in a shooting incident eight years ago was sentenced to an effective eight years' imprisonment at the end of his trial last week.

THE strike by hundreds of TransNamib employees since last week was declared illegal through an order of the Labour Court in Windhoek on Saturday.