Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Windhoek High Court Judge Boas Usiku yesterday said that direct imprisonment is the only appropriate sentence in respect of the offences committed by a 26-year-old Windhoek man. 

State advocate Ed Marondedze yesterday informed Windhoek High Court judge Christie Liebenberg that the State would apply for the two Fishrot matters – Namgomar and Fishcor – to be joined and tried as one case.

Omaheke has recorded 20 Covid-19 related deaths from January to May this year.

The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) handed over a mobile clinic worth N$300 000 to the people of Grunau on Wednesday. 

Urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni says N$433.6 million is available for local authorities to provide basic municipal services and related infrastructure during this financial year. 

A 37-year-old nurse, who was arrested in Kavango West for allegedly forging doctors’ signatures to register fake disability patients for grants, was granted N$3 000 bail along with an accomplice who has been successfully registered and has been benefiting from the disability grant. 

International relations minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah this week said the decision by the Namibian delegation to abstain from the vote on the United Nations (UN) draft resolution on Monday, was not because it is indifferent to crimes against humanity, including genocide.

The governor of Oshana, Elia Irimari, has called on taxpayers to honour their obligations to allow government to provide services and sustain its social contracts with citizens.

The qualifiers for the 2022 Confederation of African Football (CAF) Women’s Africa Cup of Nations that were set to start next month, have been postponed to October this year. The announcement was made by CAF this week.

For almost five months now, six bus drivers who transported athletes and officials to and from last year’s MTC Namibia Youth Games held at Rietfontein, are still unpaid for the services rendered and have been knocking on the doors of the sports ministry and the Namibia Sport Commission (NSC), but to no avail.