insert_link Namibia Swakopmund Municipality office-bearer elections postponed Swakopmund District Magistrate Lucia Elishi postponed the elections of the 2024 Swakopmund Municipality office-bearers on Thursday after the election process between two nominated candidates ended in a tie twice. The two candidates were current Mayor Dina Namubes of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) and Matthias Henrichsen of the Swakopmund Residents’ Association. Namubes was nominated by fellow party member Petrus Shimhanda and seconded by United Democratic Front’s (UDF) David Am-!Abeb, […] todayDecember 1, 2023 3
insert_link South Africa South Africans are living longer, mostly thanks to HIV treatment By Daniel Steyn and Nathan Geffen via GroundUp President Nelson Mandela in 2002 wore the Treatment Action Campaign’s iconic HIV-positive T-shirt to try to convince President Thabo Mbeki’s administration to provide antiretroviral treatment in the public sector. Photo: Brenton Geach (copyright reserved) South Africa has some state-run systems that are working well. One of these is the HIV treatment programme. We quite possibly have the largest public sector chronic medicine programme for a […] todayDecember 1, 2023 9
insert_link South Africa The Big Issue might have to shut down after R600,000 cyber scam By Ashraf Hendricks via GroundUp The Big Issue is battling to survive after scammers robbed it of R600,000. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks The Big Issue may have to close early next year if enough money doesn’t come in to cover the R600,000 lost in a cyber scam. “If we don’t get funds from the public now, it will kill us,” says Derek Carelse, managing director of The Big Issue. The Big Issue […] todayDecember 1, 2023 22
insert_link World As disasters and heat intensify, can the world meet the urgency of the moment at the COP28 climate talks? Shutterstock Brendan Mackey, Griffith University Eight years ago, the world agreed to an ambitious target in the Paris Agreement: hold warming to 1.5°C to limit further dangerous levels of climate change. Since then, greenhouse gas emissions have kept increasing – and climate disasters have become front page news, from mega-bushfires to unprecedented floods. In 2023, the world is at 1.2°C of warming over pre-industrial levels. Heatwaves of increasing intensity and duration […] todayNovember 30, 2023 4
insert_link Local The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards announces the 2023 winners On Tuesday, 28 November 2023, the 2023 Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards judges announced the winners of the second edition of the community-building awards ceremony hosted in Windhoek. In the fiction section, Roxane Bayer was announced as the winner for “Letters To Chloe”. Her winning short story is a sensitively written piece about the changing nature of friendship and how it affects two friends who slowly grow apart. Bayer is […] todayNovember 30, 2023 9
insert_link Uncategorized Henry Kissinger’s bombing campaign likely killed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians − and set path for the ravages of the Khmer Rouge The aftermath of U.S. bombs in Neak Luong, Cambodia, on Aug. 7, 1973. AP Photo Sophal Ear, Arizona State University Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29, 2023 at the age of 100, stood as a colossus of U.S. foreign policy. His influence on American politics lasted long beyond his eight-year stint guiding the Nixon and Ford administrations as national security adviser and secretary of state, with successive presidents, presidential […] todayNovember 30, 2023 6
World Latest developments in Israel-Hamas war srael and Hamas have agreed to extend by one more day a truce under which hostages are exchanged for Palestinian prisoners and aid flows into the war-devastated Gaza Strip. Militants took about 240 captives from southern Israel during an unprecedented October 7 attack that Israeli officials say killed around 1,200 people, most of them civilians. In response, Israel has vowed to eliminate Hamas, an Islamist movement with an armed wing. […] todayNovember 30, 2023 8
insert_link Local Another N$2 million raised for the fight against cancer in Namibia Bank Windhoek’s Executive Officer of Marketing and Corporate Communication Services, Jacquiline Pack, said that embracing social responsibility is not just a mere investment but a journey towards a sustainable and harmonious future for the Bank’s business, stakeholders, and the society it serves. She delivered this statement on Thursday, 30 November 2023, in Windhoek, announcing another two million Namibian Dollars raised by the annual Bank Windhoek Apple Cancer Project. This announcement […] todayNovember 30, 2023 11
insert_link Business / Economics Namibia exports first-ever grapes consignment via Namport Namibia has commissioned the export of its first-ever shipment of homegrown table grapes to European countries through the port of Walvis Bay on Wednesday. The consignment which consists of 250 containers of grapes produced in Aussenkehr was made possible by the producers, the Namibia Grape Company (NGC), a subsidiary of the National Youth Service (NYS), through its partnership with Capespan Namibia. In 2021, the NYS officially gained ownership of the […] todayNovember 30, 2023 19
