The Windhoek Observer is an English-language Saturday weekly newspaper, published in Namibia by Paragon Investment Holding.

[3] Lister was the political editor and wanted to give SWAPO, Namibia's liberation movement, "a 'human face', showing the people, including whites, that they were not the 'terrorists' and 'communists' and the 'black threat' that the colonial regime made them out to be through their blanket propaganda.

"[4] The newspaper was officially banned in May 1984 after Lister travelled to Zambia to report on Namibian independence talks.

[1] Smith adopted a "hard-line editorial stance against those in authority"[1] and "did not bow to the South African nor the SWAPO government.

[5] The following year, the newspaper was sold to Paragon Investment Holding, and Kuvee Kangueehi was appointed editor.