ACC arrests five in N$500 million Namcor ‘corruption’ scam
...N$560 million in bogus oil transactions where the parastatal supplied politically connected companies with petroleum products but was never paid for the fuel...
NNN persists with jobs for pensioner comrades
AR leader Job Amupanda was joined by IPC’s Nelson Kalangula and PDM leader McHenry Venaani who took issue with the age of the nominees...
Democracy thins as centralisation creeps in
Namibia's eighth administration said it would focus on addressing corruption, improving service delivery, and managing the economy...
Four years of carnage as division, hard lines grow
Over 15 000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed, and thousands of children have been "torn from their land."
Time to rip off China, Russia friendship ring
Maduro got rid of experienced petroleum staff for loyalists, and the sharp drop in oil prices beginning in 2014, worsened by US sanctions...
NBC’s DG must be a journalist
The NBC director general position is one of the top jobs any senior journalist could aspire to and the government’s preference for people outside of the profession needs to be rectified. One of the requirements for NamPower’s managing director position is a
President saddles up task force folly
A bank executive on one of the task forces has been reported to earn N$14 million last year while some banks still pay their multiskilled consultants...
Inside Grootfontein’s ‘two Swapos’
Two powerful Swapo factions within the party’s Grootfontein structures seem to be fighting for control...
Bring back BIG cry Omitara residents
OMITARA – Lolla Seibes (28) sits in line waiting to collect the N$350 orphans and vulnerable children’s grant. She gets it for her daughter, whose father died last year. That grant, Seibes’ grandmother’s N$1 600 state pension, and her aunt’s civil servant
SA cops close in on suspects, tight-lipped on N$5m Namdia link
...South African Police’s Directorate of Priority Crimes Investigation (DPCI), well-known as the Hawks, raided a Port Nolloth house, where 1 000 carats of diamonds were recovered...
Swapo remains captured by money
At the heart of this preordained destruction is Swapo’s unregulated funding of candidates in the party’s internal electoral contests, like congresses and electoral colleges..
