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Swapo vs AR on the cards

1 day - 19 June 2020 | Politics

OGONE TLHAGEWINDHOEKWhile facing the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement in several guises in the past, including a campaign around landlessness and its support of independent candidates, Swapo and its ailing hegemony will finally have to confront...

Pupil tests positive for Covid-19

1 day - 19 June 2020 | Education

JEMIMA BEUKESWINDHOEKCalm has been urged after a Mariental Secondary School pupil tested positive for Covid-19. Classes have been suspended and hostel boarders will be kept in quarantine until 6 July.All classrooms will be disinfected and...

15 prisoners potentially exposed to virus

1 day - 19 June 2020 | Health

JEMIMA BEUKESWINDHOEKAt least 15 prisoners in Walvis Bay are suspected to have been exposed to Covid-19 and may be subjected to quarantine and mandatary testing, health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula said yesterday.He added that a...

Pick n Pay to lay off 500

1 day - 19 June 2020 | Labour

JEMIMA BEUKESWindhoekPick n Pay Namibia yesterday announced that it will retrench 500 of its 1 931 employees in an effort to make the business sustainable.The company's managing director, Graeme Mouton, said the retrenchments were necessary...

Workers underpaid at Wu's housing project

1 day - 19 June 2020 | Labour

KENYA KAMBOWERUNDULabourers recruited by subcontractors building houses for prominent Chinese businesswoman Stina Wu are paid far below the minimum wage.At the site in Rundu's Kaisosi location, workers are forced to accept between N$60 and N$100...