Namibia

Two female teachers at a Tsumeb school in the Oshikoto region were arrested yesterday and charged with assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm after they allegedly assaulted a grade 4 pupil. The teachers, who are employed at the Tsumeb Junior Primary School, are now also facing suspension…

A good friend of former Namibia rugby captain Gerhard Mans, who died Wednesday after being struck by car while cycling, has shared his account of what happened, according to a witness. Mans, 60, who captained the Namibia national team and also played for the Free State for many seasons in…

PETRI Theron and John Walters will head the Namibia Rugby Union as joint presidents following the NRU's extraordinary general meeting last weekend. The meeting followed the resignation en masse of the previous board, headed by Corrie Mensah, with the new appointments due to serve until the next AGM. Theron and…

Trigon Metals Inc. shares were active Thursday after the company said it has closed on a $5.5 million convertible security funding agreement with Lind Global Fund 11, LP, an entity managed by the Lind Partners LLC, a New York-based institutional fund manager. Trigon has also entered into a financing letter…

THE number of tourists that went missing in the Fish Canyon remains a mystery, even as ground searches intensify. Authorities say 10 people entered the canyon as a group and six of them exited the area but did not register with Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) that they had left. It…

BEATRICE Masilingi and Christine Mboma are on the mend, their coach, Henk Botha, says. Both stars experienced mid-race injury misfortune on the international scene within the space of a week. Masilingi, who limped off midway through the women's 100m at the Gaborone International Meet in Botswana on 30 April ,…

AFTER losing about N$3,2 billion in foreign currency earnings in 2020 through Covid-19 the tourism industry cannot survive on domestic travel alone. This was revealed in a research paper released on Thursday by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), titled 'Namibia's Tourism Industry - Rising from the Ashes'. Namibia's…

Swapo political bureau and central committee member Tobie Aupindi has hit back at Economic Freedom Fighters' leader Julius Malema after he called the Swapo-led government corrupt. Aupindi's annoyance came after Malema, the fiery leftist, while condemning the arrest of the Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) Epafras Mukwiilongo, labelled the ruling…

Rundu — Forestry officials in Kavango West have seized about 4 000 planks from illegal timber harvesters at some recently allocated farms with no government leaseholds in the Katji-na-Katji area. A forestry patrol team discovered the illegal operation deep in the forest where planks and a timber cutting machine was…

Former WBC super featherweight champion Miguel Berchelt faces Jeremiah Nakathila at Resorts World Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, March 26. The Mexican star is now campaigning as a lightweight when he takes on Namibian contender in a ten-round main event live on ESPN+. Advertisements Berchelt moved his…