Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

The Gobabis municipality last week suspended three managers and two junior employees for alleged misconduct, bringing the total number of employees on suspension at the local authority to six. 

Years of drought have eroded the lives of thousands of subsistence farmers and recently, the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic has forced hundreds of Angolans to leave their homes to search for food while those remaining barely get by, foraging for wild berries.

Stolen cables at pumps connecting a local water treatment plant have left thousands of residents in the Zambezi region without water. As a result, residents in the region have been flocking to the Zambezi River for water.

Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula has expressed concern over the mushrooming use of unauthorised and unreliable Covid-19 test kits in the country. 

President Hage Geingob has expressed a sigh of relief over the declining Covid-19 infections as well as hospitalisations and deaths. 

A seal products factory is finding itself in a financial predicament that not only threatens its existence, but also that of several households depending on the seasonal jobs created through the processing of seals and by-products. 

The Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRA) has refuted claims that it has proposed hefty employee salary packages to its board of directors. 

The Namibia Football Association (NFA) Football House in Katutura has become a battle ground for the survival of the fittest, with the association’s president Ranga Haikali fighting to regain control of the beleaguered federation while the FA’s secretary general Franco Cosmos is punching back to save his job.

Just as tears of agony started to dry up following the shock passing of Black Africa Football Club legend Albert ‘Lucky’ Richter, another tragedy struck the close- knit family of the Gemengde outfit.  

This week the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) officially recognised the Namibia Premier League (NPL) as a sports body responsible for promoting and regulating all forms of professional football in the country.