Namibia

• Vol 53 No 2
•  20th January 2012

The man most likely to succeed Pohamba

SWAPO chooses its candidate this year for the 2014 election

• Vol 52 No 16
•  5th August 2011

Citizen candidate

• Vol 52 No 12
•  10th June 2011

Trial by procrastination

Due to open on 1 June, the long-awaited Avid Investment Corporation trial, involving claims over the embezzlement of 30 million Namibian dollars (US$4.3 mn.), has been postponed yet again. It will probably not happen until next year.

• Vol 52 No 11
•  27th May 2011

Where the BEE sucks

A trial in June could mark the start of a reckoning for massive fraud in the public sector workers’ pension fund

• Vol 52 No 4
•  18th February 2011

No uranium for Tehran

United States’ worries over possible uranium sales to Iran from the planned Valencia mine in west-central Namibia may have blocked its sale to George Forrest International (GFI), according to US State Department cables published by WikiLeaks. Valencia’s e...

• Vol 51 No 23
•  19th November 2010

Culpable contracts

Oil-trader Glencore International fears Namibia may wish to review its lengthy 2007 contract to provide half of refined petroleum imports until 2014. Namibia’s dollar is tied to the rand and the state-owned National Oil Corporation of Namibia used to buy ...

• Vol 51 No 20
•  8th October 2010

SWAPO suffers bee stings

Elections next month and rumbling financial scandals around SWAPO-linked businesses could boost support for the opposition

• Vol 51 No 7
•  2nd April 2010

The rise and rise of son of Sam

The prospect of a Nujoma dynasty looms with the promotion of Utoni Nujoma, the eldest son of founding President Sam Nujoma, to the senior cabinet position of Minister of Foreign Affairs. President Hifikepunye Pohamba made the announcement on Independence ...

• Vol 51 No 5
•  5th March 2010

Uranium battleground

The race to develop new uranium mines in the central Namib Desert is led by France’s nuclear giant Areva, pursued by smaller Australian and Canadian exploration companies. Areva plans to bring Namibia’s third uranium mine, Trekkopje, into production next ...

• Vol 51 No 4
•  19th February 2010

SWAPO's big guns in the fray

With five years to go, rows are already under way about the next presidential candidate and the last election results