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2019-12-132024-06-18Crime and Courts
Khomas, Oshikoto have highest number of reported rape cases
WINDHOEK – The Khomas and Oshikoto regions have the highest number of reported rape cases, police chief Sebastian Ndeitunga said during the observation of International Human Rights Day earlier this week.
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2019-12-132024-05-07National
Team Namibia enters Fishrot fray… calls for decisive action to tackle corruption
WINDHOEK – Team Namibia this week added its voice to the unfolding international fishing massive kickback scandal implicating Namibian politicians and local business people. In a statement, Team Namibia called for decisive action in dealing with corruption.
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2019-12-132024-06-18Crime and Courts
Yemeni murder accused gets bail
WINDHOEK - The Yemeni national accused of shooting and killing a Malian in Windhoek during 2016 was granted N$50 000 bail yesterday.
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2019-12-132024-05-07National
Traffic chief sends stern warning to drunken drivers
WINDHOEK - The head of the Namibian Police Traffic Law Enforcement Division Commissioner Amalia Gawanas has warned motorists that they will be focusing on drunken drivers over the festive season.
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2019-12-132024-04-30Front Page News
Namibia turns away fleeing SA refugees
WINDHOEK - The Namibian government has turned desperate immigrants, who fled South Africa last month following a recent wave of xenophobic attacks, away because they are not recognised as asylum seekers.
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2019-12-132024-04-30Front Page News
Seamen want govt job pledge in writing
WALVIS BAY - Unionists representing unemployed seamen have welcomed government’s intervention to help secure them jobs within the fishing industry, but they are demanding the commitment to be put in writing.
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2019-12-132024-06-18Crime and Courts
Supreme Court issues warning to insurance companies
WINDHOEK - Three judges of the Namibian Supreme Court issued a stern warning to insurance companies that are defying the provision of the Namibia National Reinsurance Act, which compels them to reinsure a portion of their business with NamibRe that their opinion about the unconstitutionality of the Act does not make them immune to the enforcement mechanisms it provides, unless a court makes such a finding through due process of law in an appeal judgment.
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2019-12-132024-04-30Front Page News
SOE Governance Act ‘ready by March’
WINDHOEK – Public enterprises minister Leon Jooste said the new legislation forming part of government’s drive to reform and restructure state-owned enterprises (SOEs) would be finalised by March next year.
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2019-12-132024-04-30Front Page News
Itula and co head to Supreme Court… five presidential candidates challenge poll outcome
Windhoek - Five candidates who contested the presidential election last month, including Dr Panduleni Itula, who stood as an independent, have approached the Supreme Court to challenge the outcome, which declared incumbent President Hage Geingob as duly elected.