Year: 2021

ONGWEDIVA – The Oshakati High Court has sharply reduced the four-year jail sentence for a young man who was convicted last year at Eenhana for assault by threat. 

The communities in the Daures constituency in Erongo region say they are still facing challenges to access potable water amid the Covid-19 pandemic. 

ONGWEDIVA – The family of Covid-19 victim Laban Shapange has appealed to the authorities to have his body exhumed from the Oniipa old cemetery for reburial at his home village of Ondobe in Ohangwena region. 

Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi is set to arrive in the country this morning for a one-day working visit, which will among others, deliberate on the joint investigation into the fatal shooting of three Namibian brothers and their Zambian cousin by the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) in November last year along the Chobe river. 

WALVIS BAY – The Swakopmund municipal council has cancelled the sale of four erven that were initially sold to four companies represented by the town’s former mayor Juuso Kambueshe. 

Nigeria’s foreign affairs minister Geoffrey Onyeama called on President Hage Geingob yesterday at State House, canvassing Namibia’s support for the west African nation’s African Union (AU) commissioner candidature.

OMUTHIYA – The Oshikoto education directorate has urged new and expectant teenagers to return to school in order to continue with schooling.

A former magistrate who is accused of raping two women has asked Windhoek High Court Judge Marlene Tomassi to allow him to appeal her refusal to grant him bail in the Supreme Court. 

The Namibian Defence Force (NDF) soldier who was arrested for shooting and killing a civilian in 2019 during the police’s anti-crime ‘Operation Kalahari Desert’ denied guilt yesterday in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court. 

As a result of the 2011 Cabinet decision on the implementation of the new curriculum, the ministry of education for the first time in history oversaw two national examinations in 2020.