Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Long-distance runners Simon Matias and Martha Shivolo were crowned winners of the 2023 Nedbank CitiDash Run on Sunday, 10 September, after successfully outclassing their opponents in the 10-kilometre (km) elite race category.

Namibian film ‘Bokwagter’ made its debut last night on kykNet & Kie on DStv channel 145 and GOtv channel 4, as well as Showmax, under the theme, ‘Namibia to the World’. 

For quite some time, the Office of the Labour Commissioner has observed that a significant number of trade unions and employers’ organisations have failed to submit required annual returns as mandated by the Labour Act. Alarmingly, some of these entities have not submitted a single annual return since their registration.

For the period ending 30 June 2023, Capricorn Group, including the Capricorn Foundation and its subsidiaries Bank Windhoek, Capricorn Asset Management, Entrepo and Bank Gaborone, invested N$21.7 million (2022: N$16.3 million) in social responsibility programmes and projects in Namibia and Botswana.

Transport minister John Mutorwa says there is nothing amiss about re-appointing the same contractor without going on tender for the second phase of a project. 

A school headmaster at the Satotwa Junior primary school in Kavango West’s Katjinakatji education circuit stands accused of ruling the school through fear. 

Having recorded 45 deaths of children under the age of five from malnutrition-related complications during the first half of this year, the Omaheke region continues to battle the effects of malnutrition after one death and 11 new cases were reported between July and August.

A Swakopmund pastor was granted N$2 000 bail by the Swakopmund Magistrate’s Court on Friday on allegations of assaulting two female church members on multiple occasions between May 2022 and September 2022.

The Construction Industries Federation (CIF) and the Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union (MANWU) continue to engage government to cancel projects that have led to the exclusion or will exclude majority Namibian-owned contractors, due to mostly steep financial pre-qualification or qualification requirements. 

Communal farmers, especially those from drought-stricken areas, have expressed renewed concerns with the delayed distribution of drought-relief food and related incentives to struggling farmers.