Year: 2021

Not only did Covid-19 rob many residents of Namibia’s south of their loved ones, two gruesome deaths also rocked the //Kharas region this weekend.

Cabinet will soon meet to decide on what assistance to offer Mozambique following last week’s agreement by SADC to deploy forces to help quell a bloody jihadist insurgency wreaking havoc in the northern parts of that country over the past three years.

Omaheke residents should stick to the rules aimed at containing the coronavirus more closely than ever, regional director of health Jeremia Shikulo said yesterday.

The Omusati region has suspended administering the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as the available vaccines have become limited while government awaits the arrival of ordered shots.

Inspector general Sebastian Ndeitunga of the Namibian Police said his office will write to his counterpart in Angola to ensure the two police officers, accused of shooting a Namibian learner last month, are prosecuted in accordance with the Angolan law.

The education ministry says learners doing the new Advanced Subsidiary (AS) level curriculum should not feel threatened or punished but rather see it as a programme to equip them with the best skills and knowledge.  

The body of a 22-year-old student, who was reported missing last week, was discovered floating in the Kavango River at Kapako village in the Mukwe constituency in Kavango East on Thursday.

The governor of Oshana, Elia Irimari, has expressed concern with a number of incomplete government projects as well as the scourge of gender-based violence in his region.

Former Springbok gaffer Allister Coetzee has been appointed as the new head coach of Namibia’s senior rugby side Welwitschias, Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) president Corrie
Mensah announced yesterday.

Unwavering patriotism, moral duty and above all an unquenchable passion for writing, informing, teaching and entertaining has finally obliged the author to drag myself out of my sickbed to pay homage to our departed sporting heroes who have fallen victim to the devastating, shameless Covid-19 pandemic that has been ravaging like wildfire through our loved ones left, right and centre.