Put a giant’s robes upon a dwarfish thief, and you have a depiction of the Zimbabwe political settlement. Tsvangirai said from the beginning (and he has said this for many years) that he would not recognise the Mugabe government as legitimate. Considering the blatant electoral fraud that has kept Mugabe in power for so many [...]

However, Mt Darwin, which was being cleared by private de-mining concern, Koch Mine Safe, still has uncleared areas. Koch destroyed more than 162,416 antipersonnel mines in Mukumbura, but its contract excluded gorges and all mines more than 20 centimeters deep.

By Tawanda Kanhema
NAMIBIAN newspaper editors have downed their pens in honour of Hannes ‘Smittie’ Smith, co-founder and lifetime editor of the Windhoek Observer who succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 75.
Posthumous credits and outpourings of grief heaped on Smith show that his greatest passion was to record, photograph and chronicle every single event [...]

The Herald today confirmed what many had suspected from day one…. that the bombing of Harare Central Police Station is wet-work by police. Soon, we might now what the motive was, but it clearly has nothing to do with the talks. There are thousands of dockets in those offices showing the role of police in [...]

THE RULING SWAPO party is growing allergic to newspaper coverage of its affairs. The Namibian last week exposed tensions in the party that have been brewing for some years now. Despite efforst by party stalwarts to paper over the cracks, whispers of discontent among the voluble SWAPO Youth League grew to deafening bickering after Informante

By Tawanda Kanhema- Informante
A LEGAL showdown is brewing between Katutura Community Radio (KCR) and the Namibian Communications Commission after the authority rejected its bid to expand its airwaves to other parts of Namibia.
Documents obtained from the commission show that the Windhoek based community radio, whose broadcasts currently cover a 100km radius including parts of Okahandja [...]

Picture above summarises damage caused to Harare Central Police Station by a
bomb explosion.
IN Harare, newspapers have screamed treason after a bomb explosion hit the main police station. It doesnt seem as though any known individual suffered any sort of injury (physical, psychological or emotional) from the bomb explosion, although it occured during working hours at [...]

Forged Namibian IDs and passports believed to have been printed in the UK have been used by international drug syndicates to fly to countries like China, Indonesia and Nepal. In most cases, the IDs and Passports carry the names of unsuspecting Namibian citizens whose identities have been stolen and used to obtain new travel documents. Spelling errors and watermarks betray the forged documents.