• By Staff Reporter

A total of 79 young table tennis players converged on the Wanderers Sports Hall in Pioneers Park in Windhoek over the weekend to compete in the third tournament of the Arysteq / Simonis Storm Schools Tournament Series 2025. The tournament comprised of 27 junior girls and 52 junior boys, representing a 35 percent participation rate for junior girls, aligning with international guidelines to increase female participation in the sport. 

• By Chollastic Tjehiua

The World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) vice president for Africa, Naftal Kambungu said the organization’s just-concluded general assembly held in Windhoek, deliberated on pressing youth issues, including access to education, health care, clean water, and sanitation. 

• By Patience Makwele

As her reign as Miss Namibia 2024 nears its end, 29-year-old Prisca Anyolo, reflects on her journey into the modelling world and beyond. A business owner, journalist, and passionate advocate for women’s empowerment, the beauty queen narrated how modeling sparked her confidence and how winning Miss Namibia afforded her recognition on a global scale. 

• By Staff Reporter

Swapo’s secretary general (SG), Sophia Shaningwa, has rubbished former member Reinhold Shipwikineni’s resignation from the party, as a ploy to destabilise the organization from within.

• By Chollastic Tjehiua

Out-of-school youth and marginalized groups as well as students at the Namibia Community Skills Development Foundation (COSDEF) and the Welwitchia University are the biggest beneficiaries in a partnership forged between the two institutions recently. 
COSDEF and Welwitchia University have committed to offering scholarships and fellowships to deserving students in order to promote equitable access to higher education. 

• By Patience Makwele

Urban and Rural Development Minister James Sankwasa said he is acquainting him- self with a recent Confidente report on damning findings of at least four forensic audits and investigations at the City of Windhoek, before summoning municipal officials to hand over the documents to him.

•  By Kae Matundu Tjiparuro

ONE of the foremost publications in Namibia holding, if not hold out, to be a guide to Namibian politics is the similarly titled publication by Graham Hopwood, which include what is termed the A-Z of Namibian political personalities. 
Given the electric nature of those covered by the book, not to mention the shadiness of some of the would-be personalities, ala the author, it is difficult to discern the meaning of personalities in this regard. 

• By Jeremiah Ndjoze

As the rot at the Namibia Training Authority (NTA) is alleged to be systemic, various forms of corrupt activities are said to be manifesting themselves, in various forms, at the education parastatal. 

•  By Alexactus T Kaure

Last year’s general and presidential elections brought the issue of gender equality into sharp focus. It was a call for a woman president. Just any woman. It was cast in those fashionable terms of gender mainstreaming, gender balancing, woman empowerment and gender equality. Former president Hifikepunye Pohamba`s son said his father delivered the first non-Ovambo president and will see the first woman president too. So the debate heated up.

• By Hilja Shikongo

Namibia’s creatives are stepping onto the continental spotlight as two local artists prepare to showcase their work at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair in Johannesburg, South Africa, later this month.

Jo Rogge and Lynette Musikubili will represent Namibia at the prestigious event, with support from RMB Namibia and The Project Room, which is a local arts gallery.