Year: 2021

A major curriculum transformation process of the University of Namibia (Unam) is due for completion by November this year, vice chancellor Kenneth Matengu announced.

The police in Omusati have recorded four drownings over the Easter weekend, including the case of a 12-year-old boy who drowned in a pond.

The setting up of the health centre for the community of Otjinungua in the Epupa constituency is being hampered by transportation to get the facilities there.

The owner of Endombo compound at Tsumeb, Christo Groenewald, has renewed calls to evict defiant tenants, saying the failed protracted negotiations in finding an amicable solution over non-payment of rental has caused great financial losses on his part. 

A mother, accused of murdering her two minor children in Ethiopia last year, has filed an urgent application in the High Court yesterday, seeking to be released from custody, citing her arrest and continued detention was unlawful.

President Hage Geingob is expected to name a new defence minister following yesterday’s resignation of Peter Vilho. 

Namibia is still waiting on SADC to craft a response to the deteriorating security situation in Mozambique before it can offer any assistance to that country. 

Lawyers for northern businessman Sindano Hango have filed an appeal for his conviction for rape. Hango’s case was on the court roll yesterday for sentencing in the Oshakati Regional Court, but the matter had to be postponed to 28 April 2021 pending the appeal in the Supreme Court. 

Africa has a unique opportunity to significantly advance the continent’s economic status and reverse the current socio-economic challenges the continent is facing.

A resident of Rundu was denied bail yesterday in the local magistrate’s court on a charge of murder. Gideon Shivute Lukas (25) stands accused of stabbing a man whom he allegedly accused of stealing his N$20 at a local drinking spot in Rundu’s Kehemu location on Saturday at around 18h22.