Year: 2021

The //Kharas Regional Council late last week, during a special meeting, appointed Benedictus Diergaardt as acting chief regional officer following the suspension late last month of Beatus Kasete.

The troubled Grootfontein municipality says it has started implementing recommended remedial actions following an explosive audit report, which highlighted an array of governance issues. 

The killing of Namibian nationals by the Botswana Defence Force remains a thorn in the flesh of local residents, despite the relatively calm security situation, governor Lawrence Sampofu has said. 

The Erongo region wants to increase its Covid-19 vaccination target from the current 400 people to at least 1 000 per day. 

Public transport operators will be expected to fork out N$4 000 for failure to provide alcohol-based sanitiser to their passengers and regularly disinfecting the vehicle. 

A Kunene farmer, who was left to count the cost after a pride of lions killed 76 of his small stock, comprising 66 goats and 10 sheep, will be compensated N$40 000 as per government policy. 

Hardap regional health director Yvonne Stephanus said the number and accessibility of vaccination points in the region may be one of the reasons contributing to many eligible persons not getting their Covid-19 jabs. 

A 33-year-old man was arrested for assaulting his stepfather to death with a stick at Ombondeyomutse-wondjamba village in the Ruacana constituency on Monday.

The Kalimbeza rice project, envisaged to become the major rice producer in the Zambezi region, contributing towards food security in Namibia, has yielded little to poor results. 

The trial of a Gobabis resident who is charged with murdering another woman in exactly the same manner as in a previous murder he was convicted and sentenced for is set to start on 4 August in the High Court.