A court already sided with the workers, yet Otjiwarongo Municipality is still sitting on over N$30 million in unpaid salary adjustments from a 2014 directive.
The original 2014 salary directive
A ministry letter told six municipalities to bump C4 salaries by N$7,475.
C4 was the lowest pay grade, sitting below the minimum entry level.
Only one technical-engineer role in the D band qualified for an upgrade.
No blanket promotion of D1 and D2 employees to D3 was authorized.
How management allegedly botched it
D1 and D2 bands got abolished and rolled into D3 instead.
C4 workers only saw roughly N$2,000 in adjustments.
Sem Tuaanda says he didn't even hear about the directive until 2017.
Shop stewards were never looped in to spread the...
Namibia's social sector just gobbled up nearly 62% of an N$81.3 billion operational budget, making it the undeniable spending heavyweight for 2026/27.
Budget headline numbers
Ericah Shafudah unveiled the operational budget last Thursday.
Spending jumped N$746 million over the prior year's outturn.
Efficiency cuts across ministries freed up N$2.3 billion in savings.
Revenue for the fiscal year sits at an estimated N$89.8 billion.
Social sector gets the lion's share
Education, health, safety nets, and youth empowerment split N$54.3 billion.
The education ministry alone pulls N$28 billion of that pot.
Subsidized tertiary education got N$2.8 billion earmarked specifically.
N$1.7 billion goes toward beefing up civil-servant pay...
A group of 252 fired Samherji workers are back demanding real severance seven years after getting tossed aside with a laughable N$10,000 each.
Fishrot fallout still haunting workers
Former Samherji employees fired in late 2019 and early 2020 want proper payouts.
Metlaw Attorneys fired off a letter to CEO Baldvin Thorsteinsson on Monday.
Lawyer Richard Metcalfe called the dismissals groundless and mercenary.
Thorsteinsson hadn't responded by press time yesterday.
The insulting severance deal
Each worker pocketed just N$10,000, roughly 530 euros.
Years of service got zero consideration in those payments.
Notice-pay requirements and proper severance rules were completely ignored.
Vessels like Saga Seafood, Geysir, and Heinaste all left...
Erongo cancer patients just scored a local oncology unit, killing the need to trek all the way to Windhoek for treatment.
Walvis Bay Oncology Centre goes live
Phase 1 opened Fon riday at Walvis Bay District Hospital.
Langer Heinrich Uranium Mine bankrolled the project as the primary donor.
Cancer Association of Namibia coordinated the whole effort.
Rolf Hansen called it a statement of national intent.
Why decentralization is a big deal
Windhoek Central Hospital previously monopolized state oncology services.
Patients had been relocating or commuting to the capital.
Hansen argued that proximity to family boosts patient resilience.
Erongo residents get less-burdensome treatment journeys starting immediately.
CAN's broader regional...
Diesel just got nearly 16.5% pricier in Zimbabwe, and that single jump is about to ripple through every shop shelf in the country.
Zimbabwe's fresh fuel-price spike
Petrol (Blend E5) climbed from US$1.56 to US$1.71 per litre.
Diesel leapt from US$1.52 to US$1.77, a steeper hit.
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority dropped these new figures yesterday.
Emmerson Mnangagwa once brushed off faraway conflicts as irrelevant.
Why diesel matters more here
Diesel runs most transport, heavy rigs, and supply chains.
Costlier fuel gets baked straight into goods and services.
Supermarket prices will inevitably absorb the transport markup.
Businesses always shove those extra costs onto consumers.
Global oil link and what comes next
Zimbabwe...
A towering anti-apartheid figure who did time on Robben Island and later torched his own party legacy just exited the stage at 77.
Mosiuoa Lekota's life and legacy
Mosiuoa Lekota served as South Africa's defence minister for a full decade.
His Robben Island stint overlapped with Nelson Mandela's imprisonment.
Lekota became the Free State's first premier after democracy arrived.
Football skills earned him the nickname Terror early on.
ANC fallout and Cope's rise
Lekota ditched the ANC in 2008 over governance and corruption gripes.
Thabo Mbeki's ouster by the party accelerated his departure.
Cope, co-founded with Mbhazima Shilowa, snagged 30 parliamentary seats initially.
Internal leadership beef between the two tanked the party over...
A fresh national handbook just dropped in Namibia, pushing the idea that raising kids is everybody's job, not a solo gig.
Namibia's new parenting handbook
Emma Kantema helped kick off the guide's rollout on Wednesday.
Her gender ministry co-built it with Health and Social Services.
Seven modules target emotional-health skills for digital-age parents.
Traditional African communal child-rearing philosophy anchors the whole thing.
Tech dangers and online safety
Kantema's ministry launched a task force fighting child exploitation online.
Cyberbullying and misuse of kids' images are primary targets.
She wants regional traditional authorities leading grassroots adoption.
Windhoek can't be the only place benefiting from these resources...
Namibia's Access to Information Act keeps sitting in limbo because parliament just froze the hiring process for its key enforcer.
Information Commissioner recruitment halted
Parliament abruptly suspended hiring for the commissioner and deputy roles.
A newspaper notice on Wednesday confirmed the freeze.
Neither the National Assembly nor the ICT Ministry explained why.
The Access to Information Act created this commissioner position.
Why this matters for transparency
Namibia gazetted the Act in 2022, but full implementation stalled.
No dedicated commissioner means the law lacks its enforcer.
Promoting and protecting information-access rights is the role's mandate.
Parliament had only recently advertised the vacancy.
Salary and...
Namibia's anti-corruption agencies just got told to stop operating like isolated islands and start sharing intelligence as a unified front.
Ngurare pushes for joint anti-corruption effort
Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare urged agencies to ditch siloed operations.
His special adviser delivered the speech on his behalf in Windhoek.
Steering committee members assessed anti-corruption strategy progress.
Ngurare called corruption a common enemy requiring a collective response.
Institutions named in the push
The Anti-Corruption Commission and Financial Intelligence Centre were highlighted.
The Office of the Prosecutor General got a specific mention.
The Office of the Auditor-General and the Ombudsman's office were listed.
Adequate funding...
