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Namibia to investigate Sasol role

Sasol and its joint venture partners in Namibia are finally starting to break their silence over a R4-billion oil contract as questions of impropriety mount around the…

Axed leader returns

The return to Namibia’s Parliament last week of a Swapo leader who was axed from Cabinet — at the height of the presidential succession battle little over a year ago by then head…

Swapo calls Nujoma’s bluff

After nearly two months of defiance, disgraced former Swapo youth leader Paulus Kapia has finally relented and resigned his seat in Parliament. This after a last ditch attempt by…

Corruption case divides Swapo

Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba’s anti-corruption drive has reignited divisions within the ruling party and is driving a wedge between himself and his predecessor Sam…

Scandal claims Namibian MP

Namibia’s latest financial investment scandal has claimed a Cabinet scalp. Paulus Kapia, the Deputy Minister of Works, Transport and Communication, who only a few months ago was…

The phantom banker

Namibian authorities have called in the help of South African authorities to trace people who are suspected of having conned state companies out of at least R130-Â million of…

Namibians fleeced of R130m

A string of unrealised multimillion-rand investments with shady financial traders based in South Africa has left some Namibian state-owned companies embarrassed by the fact that…

Namibia’s ‘recycled’ Cabinet

”Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue” is how University of Namibia professor of political studies Bill Lindeke described Namibia’s new government…

Nujoma’s prayers answered

Namibian churches displayed the anxiety that gripped most of the country as the ruling party, the South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo), held a special congress to a…

‘Things are going the wrong way’

Having constantly dismissed comparisons with Zimbabwe, Namibia’s government last week lent credence to current perceptions when it announced plans to expropriate white-owned…

Geingob out in the cold before demotion

Namibia’s Prime Minister, Hage Geingob, resigned on Tuesday after President Sam Nujoma demoted him to local government minister. Geingob had served as prime minister since…

No opposition in Swapo

The highest posts in Namibia’s ruling party are up for grabs. But President Sam Nujoma says his comrades need not compete for the jobs.