Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

It is a shame to be in a continent with leaders who worship and praise their colonists. And the question that raises eyebrows is then, what are they (African leaders) exactly telling Africans about the independence of Africa?

On Wednesday, the 30th June 2021, the devastating news reached Namibia that Tekla Tala Uwanga is no more. As it is written in the scripture of the Holy Book that, set your house in order, for you shall die and not live. It was not easy for me to believe this truth. 

The Tsumeb municipality says it is busy with the evaluation of over 300 plots that were serviced for residential purposes. 

Mariental mayor Adam Kuhlmann said council will strive to provide quality and affordable services for its residents with the current financial year’s budget.

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a toilet at an Omuthiya clinic last week Wednesday during lunch hour in what seemed to have been an arranged meet-up.

Safety and security minister Albert Kawana last week said the government has deployed 3 000 police officers, 2 500 military personnel, 300 correctional officers and 131 vehicles to man the 10 partial lockdown zones.

The thunderous indictment and sentencing of former South African president Jacob Zuma to 15 months behind bars has been received with mixed emotions the world over, but one message is supreme, that no one is above the law, local pundits say. 

The higher education ministry has promised to finally release the list of successful students who had applied for funding through the Namibian Students Financial Assistance Fund for the 2021 academic year. 

The Keetmanshoop municipality recently erected 30 mobile stands for informal traders at the central and monument park sites in town as part of Covid-19 relief measures. 

Swapo and Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) councillors at Oshakati are at loggerheads after the ruling party rejected the IPC’s motion for council to set up a brick-making factory and to restrict individuals from making bricks at the town.