Month: July 2021

A male police officer was assaulted by four women related to a suspect he attempted to arrest for a stock theft case on Saturday. 

Police in the //Kharas region say those attending funerals are the main transgressors of the regulations ratified to curb the spread of Covid-19, while warning residents who ignore the curfew that they may face heavy fines or imprisonment.  

Informal traders at the Okuryangava Stop n Shop market say they are disturbed by the actions of the City Police, who confiscated their products while they try to make an honest living.

A 35-year-old man died on Friday afternoon at Walvis Bay when he fell from a garbage truck.

Car rental owners have accused Profile Car Hire of owing them more than N$400 000 for using their vehicles to carry out the Namibian Statistics Agency (NSA) Mapping and Pilot Census between November last year and April this year. 

Following the outbreak of new Covid-19 variants which are more infectious and deadly with a catastrophic effect on developing countries, Namibia has been identified as one of the lucky nations that Germany will donate vaccines to.

A murder convict who was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment for killing a Russian farming couple in a brutal panga attack, was granted leave to appeal his sentence by the High Court. 

//Kharas governor Aletha Frederick said coronavirus has touched every corner of the globe and changed the course of history. She urged residents to get vaccinated, as the region has doses available.

The late retired lieutenant general Lucas Petrus Hangula, well known as ‘Fogo’, who died on 21 June 2021, was laid to rest yesterday at Onamutanda Cemetery in the Endola constituency of the Ohangwena region. 

Netball Namibia (NN) vice president Rebekka /Goagoses says her election as Africa Netball’s new vice president for development is not only to the greater benefit of the country, but it is an opportunity to consolidate and strengthen the continent’s development efforts as a whole.