Information minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah announced that she would kike a code of ethics in place for the country’s journalists and a "media mediator", a kind of ombudsman, in place by the end of 2006. Addressing the media on the latest Cabinet decisions on Wednesday, Nandi-Ndaitwah first called on journalists to be "sensitive to feelings of other individuals and groups and guard against evoking emotions that can give rise to tension, including racial tension". The minister said she planned to meet all editors of each media institution next year to discuss how "to further enhance the relationship between government and the media "and to try and find a solution to the historic divisions that are still existing between the media and our society". The minister did not say if she would include the editor of the SWAPO newspaper Namibia Today, which is full of racial remarks and criticism against white Namibians and opposition parties. The minister also did not say if the proposed code of ethics would also apply to that newspaper.

Asked about the loss-making government weekly "Southern Times", a joint venture between the government of Zimbabwe and Namibia, Ndaitwah said both governments were busy studying a "strategic plan" to make the paper a financial success.