President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has proposed a shift of the up-stream oil portfolio to the Presidency, and is trying to pass an amendment to the Petroleum Act to do so. Under the new act, the granting of licences will be under…

In late november last year, a newspaper headline read that Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi would seek the independence of Namibia’s two southern provinces. The party has of late dominated the Hardap and ||Kharas regions. These regions have been…