Name |
Medium |
Owner |
History and Background |
Online / Print |
unclear, seems to be its own thing |
Launched in 2011, published weekly on Mondays, readership of 60,000, daily online |
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Online / Print |
Namibia Media Holdings |
Oldest German-language newspaper in Africa, initially founded to report on WWI. Name changed after Germany lost possession of Namibia. Was previously pro-apartheid, pro-South African during the 1970s |
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Online only (print was discontinued) |
Daniel Steinmann |
Monthly business newsletter, print edition stopped publication in 2016 |
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TV/Radio |
Public broadcasting service |
24 hour radio station in English and nine other stations in Setswana, German, Afrikaans, Oshiwambo, Damara/Nama, Otijihero, Rukavango, Silozi, San. TV plays mainly English shows with some variety from other languages, as well as some broadcasts from Deutsche Welle. Has been accused of favoring SWAPO political party. |
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Print and Online |
mostly donors |
Initially aimed to support Namibian independence from South Africa, Praised by Kofi Annan for integrity, government boycotted 2000-2011 |
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TV |
Value |
based out of South Africa |
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TV |
Value |
Value |
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Print and Online |
Max Media Conglomerate |
48-page tabloid/investigative with a print run of 11,000 copies a week that are distributed in every region of Namibia. |
Gwen Lister
Gwen Lister is the former editor of The Namibian. She now works for the Namibia Media Trust -- which owns the paper -- to promote freedom. Previously, she co-founded the Windhoek Observer in 1978 and used the paper to criticize apartheid in South Africa. She was harassed, searched, and put on trial by the South African government for her controversial reporting. She also founded The Namibian in 1985, continuing to criticize the apartheid regime, and was arrested -- but later released because of international protests on her behalf. Even after Namibian independence from South Africa, she continued to be harassed for the watchdog role that The Namibian played in monitoring the new ruling party, SWAPO. For her work, she has received an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists in 1992, the Courage in Journalism Award in 2004, and was named one of the International Press Institute's 50 Press Freedom Heroes in 2000. |
Tangeni Amupadhi
Tangeni Amupadhi is the current editor of The Namibian. He took over the position from Gwen Lister in 2011. Prior to that, he was co-founder and editor of Insight Namibia, which he describes as a monthly business and politics magazine. He also worked for the South African Mail and Guardian paper, and was a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard. Max Hamata Max Hamata is the controversial tabloid editor of the Confidénte. In 2013 the Swapo Party announced that he and the paper were being fined N$1,5 million for an allegedly libelous story he had written that stated that the "Founding President had been 'privileged' to graze his 200 cattle on a farm belonging to the ministry of defense." The prosecutors argued that this was meant to suggests that the founding president was greedy and over-privileged, as he had not asked for special permission to graze his cattle there. They were further angered by Hamata's delays in issuing an apology. While Hamata's integrity has been called into question, he remains a large figure in the Namibian media. Toivo Ndjebela
Toivo Ndjebela is the managing editor of the New Era. Previously, he was the editor of the Namibian Sun. He has also worked at the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation, the Windhoek Observer and Informante. |
The Rambler
How to Effectively Spend N$10 Billion This column from September 2018 criticizes the plans of the Namibian government to borrow N$10 billion from the Chinese by suggesting what the money should be spent on -- a presidential jet from Beijing because "what other way can we thank our eastern overlords than to hand them the money right back in exchange for opulence and unnecessary dross" or " a book[.] any book" for the Swapo Party Youth league secretary. Dear Unemployed Graduate This column, written as a letter to April 2017 grads, talks about issues they might face in the "real world," such as the ongoing housing crisis in Namibia that "the leaders your parents voted for" can't solve, the ongoing consequences of "the black tax," and general unemployment issues. |
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America First / Namibia First
This video was actually published on YouTube by Gondwana Collection Namibia, which is a tourism company that primarily posts videos about travel experiences in Namibia. This video was supposed to be a response to the original video posted by the Netherlands; I included it for comparison with a similar video Austria posted in response. |