Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Community members of Kasika in the Ngoma circuit of the Zambezi region have rejected the principal who was chosen to lead a local school. 

Trial-awaiting inmates at the Tsumeb police station are alleging police brutality after two were reportedly assaulted by officers earlier this week, as the force carried out a routine search for illegal items.

The clinical branch chief for the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Namibia Dr Steven Hong said the public health guidance in other countries of not wearing a mask after being fully vaccinated would not be appropriate to apply locally. 

The home affairs ministry has reversed an earlier decision and granted permission to a same-sex couple to bring their twin daughters – born through surrogacy in South Africa – home to Namibia.

Helao Nafidi mayor Darius Shaalukeni has hit back at critics against the reappointment of CEO Inge Ipinge, saying age is not a factor for someone to be employed on a contract basis. Ipinge is well over 60 years and has been CEO of the local authority since 2011. 

A man accused of committing several rape offences is a danger to women and children and should not be released on bail for “the good of the community”, the State has argued. 

 The health ministry is investigating the matter in which a 62-year-old man died while admitted to a hospital in Windhoek after allegedly receiving his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on 17 May 2021.

A mother of a four-year-old girl at Onayena had a shock after witnessing her daughter being sexually assaulted in a hut. 

More tributes have been pouring in for the late Bishop Emeritus Hendrick Frederick, who passed away on Saturday. 

The ministry of health expressed concern about the steep spike in the number of new Covid-19 infections around the country.