Year: 2021

Lawyers representing the Fishrot accused and the State last week agreed with the date of 20 September proposed by Windhoek High Court judge Christie Liebenberg for the joinder of the two Fishrot matters.

Windhoek magistrate Linus Samunzala has granted N$5 000 bail, with conditions, to a former employee of the Namibia Institute of Pathology, who allegedly falsely pretended that Covid-19 tests were genuinely tested and resulted in negative outcomes.

In an effort to revive and accelerate trade between Namibia and Tanzania, the mission at Dar es Salaam last weekend hosted a business expo to showcase products and possible investment areas.

An entrepreneur from the Tuhingireni informal settlement in Rundu has developed bricks from recycled plastic and sand as a way of solving the town’s solid waste management problems.  

A nine-year-old girl became the latest rape victim in Omusati after she was allegedly defiled on Thursday evening at Okatseidhi village in the Tsandi Constituency.

The veld fire that started on Tuesday in the Windhoek Rural constituency and damaged grazing and infrastructure on 30 farms is still raging, and was heading to the Dordabis settlement yesterday. 

Namibia needs to inoculate at least 10 000 people per day to reach the target of vaccinating approximately 60% of its population by December 2021, but falls far short of this number at the moment.

The health ministry last week instructed local environmental health practitioners to remove various KOO canned products, Hugo’s Baked Beans and Helderberg Peas, produced between 1 May 2019 and 5 May 2021, from Namibian shelves.

Former president Hifikepunye Pohamba has donated four classrooms and a storeroom, worth N$900 000, to the Okanghudi Combined School at his home village in the Ohangwena region on Friday. 

The Independent Patriots for Change have condemned the shooting and killing of a young man by the Namibian Police at Onamhinda village near Oshikango last week.