Two Windhoek-based teachers who are working at the same school have tested positive for coronavirus, health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula announced yesterday. Shangula announced 64 new positive cases and 24 recoveries. Walvis Bay recorded 44 cases, while Windhoek reported 15. Five cases were reported at Swakopmund. The country’s tally of confirmed cases now stands at...
SWAKOPMUND – Eighteen of the 20 people arrested for allegedly attacking police officers and vandalising the Mondesa police station at Swakopmund last weekend were denied bail. Two of the accused were granted bail when the group appeared for the first time in the Swakopmund Magistrate’s Court on Monday. The two suspects released on bail –...
WALVIS BAY – A resident of Uis is expected to appear in the Omaruru Magistrate’s Court today for allegedly sodomising a 35-year-old man at the settlement on Monday evening. Erongo police crime investigations coordinator Deputy Commissioner Erastus Iikuyu yesterday said the suspect and the victim were drinking together at a local residence when the former...
SWAKOPMUND – The DRC community at Swakopmund was left devastated on Sunday evening after a mother, her daughter and grandchild died in a house fire. The heroic mother was, in fact, trying to rescue the two from the fire when the incident, which was allegedly caused by a burning candle left unattended, occurred. The incident...
WALVIS BAY – The Walvis Bay municipality says they are exploring the possibility of using a piece of land, belonging to the National Housing Enterprise (NHE) and which was earlier identified for temporary decongestion, to permanently resettle the residents of Twaloloka. CEO of the Walvis Bay municipality Muronga Haingura yesterday said discussions are currently underway...
WALVIS BAY – An angry mob of the DRC informal settlement residents yesterday morning attacked a fire truck that had responded to a fire incident at Swakopmund. The residents accused the fire brigade of arriving late to the scene after being alerted on time about the fire, resulting in three shacks being destroyed and a...
WALVIS BAY – Health authorities yesterday announced that the recommended isolation period for patients with confirmed Covid-19 infections will no longer be more than 14 days. This is according to Dr Kaveto Sikuvi, from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Sikuvi, who is accompanying the high-level government delegation assessing the Covid-19 situation at Walvis...
WALVIS BAY – Walvis Bay is currently a hive of activity as consignments of food, mattresses, clothes and other basic essentials are arriving at the town to aid the residents of Twaloloka who lost everything during a devastating fire on Sunday evening. A consignment of food and mattresses also arrived yesterday from the Office of...
WALVIS BAY – Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula has pleaded with Namibians to take the Covid-19 pandemic seriously, as cumulative confirmed cases in the country nearly hit 2 000. According to Shangula, some Namibians are behaving as if the pandemic is no longer here, despite the country reporting 1 917 cases and eight deaths due...
WALVIS BAY – Cries of anguish reverberated through the informal settlement of Twaloloka in Walvis Bay yesterday as hapless residents sifted through ashes following a devastating fire on Sunday evening, which claimed the life of a one-year-old boy. More than 1 000 people were left homeless after the fire destroyed about 200 shacks at the...