Namibia News

Herero women in traditional dress prepare to vote at a polling station in Windhoek, Namibia Friday Nov.

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 Nivex Grape Company workers were seriously injured when two trucks collided and one of them overturned at Aussenkehr on Tuesday morning.

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.

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

Namib Naukluft National Park , Hardap , Namibia Wednesday, October 7, 2009 It's a full day drive to our destination today.

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.

THE Chief of Ovitoto has made an official appeal to the Minister of Works and Transport, Helmut Angula, to give some attention to the 'dangerous' 45km main road between Okahandja and Ovitoto.

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

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

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.

Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Monday sent a congratulatory message to Hifikepunye Pohamba upon his reelection as president of Namibia.

Final results from Namibian presidential and parliamentary elections have indicated that the incumbent president, Hifikepunye Pohamba , has been reelected by a large margin.

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.

THE next National Assembly to be inaugurated next year will be robbed of many years of parliamentary experience, with some long-serving MPs both in the ruling party and the opposition not making it back to the House.

EIGHT political parties do not accept the results of the National Assembly and presidential elections and will take the Electoral Commission of Namibia to court for allegedly contravening the election law.

AN attempt by the Swakopmund Municipality to get the coastal town's struggling airport back under its own control failed in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.

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.