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Newspaper Circulation First issued Languages Ownership Website The Namibian: 40,000 (2010) [1] 1985 English, Oshiwambo Free Press of Namibia [2]: www.namibian.com.na: Namibian Sun ...
The newspaper exposed human rights violations by South Africa's occupying forces and was thus perceived as overly critical and pro-SWAPO by the South African government.. Even the name of the newspaper irritated the South African administration as they preferred the land to be called South West Africa, whereas Namibia was a notion closely related to the independence movem
The Windhoek Observer is an English-language Saturday weekly newspaper, published in Namibia by Paragon Investment Holding. It is the country's oldest and largest circulating paper. [1] As of 2009 it had a circulation of 45,000 copies. [2] The Windhoek Observer was founded in 1978 by Hannes Smith and Gwen Lister. [3]
The New Era is a daily national newspaper owned by the government of Namibia. [1] The newspaper is one of four daily national newspapers in the country, the others being The Namibian (English and Oshiwambo), Die Republikein and Allgemeine Zeitung . [2] New Era was created by the New Era Publications Corporation Act of 1992. [3]
Below is a list of members of the 8th National Assembly of Namibia. They were selected by their parties based on the results of the 2024 Namibian general election. This National Assembly will be inaugurated on 20 March 2025. Like each of the previous National Assemblies, it is led by the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO). The 8th ...
Herman Andimba Toivo ya Toivo (22 August 1924 – 9 June 2017) was a Namibian anti-apartheid activist, politician and political prisoner.Ya Toivo was active in the pre-independence movement, and is one of the co-founders of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) in 1960, and before that, its predecessor the Ovamboland People's Organization (OPO) in 1959.
He was appointed as the editor of the Namibian Sun in May 2012. [2] Ndjebela returned to New Era in 2014, and again to the Namibian Sun, as editor-in-chief, in 2019. In 2021, he along with veteran journalist and editor Gwen Lister, was acknowledged as champion of world press freedom.
Namibia (/ n ə ˈ m ɪ b i ə / ⓘ [17] [18]), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa.Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the northeast, approximating a quadripoint, Zimbabwe lies less than 200 metres (660 feet) away along the Zambezi River ...