Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Despite the ongoing effect of the pandemic on general economic activity throughout the global economy, business confidence in Namibia has been gradually improving. 

Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) launched the Business Namibia Covid-19 Response Initiative on 24 June 2021 as an emergency intervention by Namibia’s private sector to support government in the fight against the disastrous effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

While government weighs up the next legal step in the protracted //Kharas Regional Council saga, the governing party in the region says the line minister should stay out of the affairs of the council.

Oshakati resident Lainoto Nuyoma has pleaded with Good Samaritans to assist him to care for his 15-month-old baby after the mother abandoned them almost a year ago. 

The Ohangwena region has during the last year witnessed an increase in domestic violence cases, reporting a massive 252 cases, compared to 71 in 2019.

The challenges wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic has not spared people living with visual disabilities.

In an unusual way of exercising justice, magistrate Unchen Konjore yesterday granted bail to a detained person, accused of rape at the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court, in absentia.

An alleged drug dealer was on Monday granted bail of N$3 000 when she appeared in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court on a charge of dealing in cannabis. 

President Hage Geingob has described the death of one of the country’s finest diplomats, Zed Ngavirue, as “having left a huge void which can never be filled”. 

Retired Colonel Gallen Mazila Kolokwe was laid to rest yesterday at Muyako village in the Katima Mulilo Rural constituency.