Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Otjozondjupa regional leadership has been conducting weekly assessment and preparedness meetings as new Covid-19 infections continue to rise sharply. 

Glowing tributes have been pouring in for former Swapo parliamentarian Chief Samuel Ankama, who died on Sunday in a northern hospital aged 63. 

As we lay to rest another gallant son of the soil, Gaob Eduard Afrikaner of the Afrikaner Traditional Authority, I, the Leader of the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) and the entire LPM leadership and supporters are struck with a deep sense of grief and loss on his passing.  

The Rehoboth Methodist Church has set up a welfare centre on its premises, where people with minor Covid-19 symptoms can be treated and get information on the correct way to treat their symptoms.  

Dennis Noa, a medical intern, who is currently fighting to be released on bail, is scheduled to be back in court today. 

A decision by the Windhoek Correctional Facility authority not to allow any inmate to leave the facility for whatever reason until 9 July, delayed the resumption of the trial in which two American citizens are accused of the assassin-style murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in January 2011.

Ovambanderu Traditional Authority (OTA) supreme council has agreed to appoint their trusted senior traditional councillor, Gerson Katjirua as the authority’s acting chief.

​​​​​​​The application of Russian national Alexander Krylof (57) and his Namibian counterpart Anna Katrina Engelbrecht (29) launched for a section 174 discharge was postponed yesterday to 16 August.

The Rehoboth police are investigating a case involving a medical doctor who is accused of physically assaulting a nurse in front of patients. 

The reality that many suspected for some time was confirmed yesterday. The deadly and fast spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus is in Namibia.