Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

The Walvis Bay town council on Thursday tabled a N$609 million capital budget for the 2023/2024 financial year.

The ongoing tussle over whom to provide ground-handling services at Hosea Kutako International Airport is far from over.

A 33-year-old man who admitted that he strangled his police officer girlfriend and mother of his two young children to death in October 2021, was sentenced to an effective 28 years imprisonment last Wednesday by Windhoek High Court Christi Liebenberg.

Windhoek High Court Judge Herman January on Friday convicted a resident of Otjimbingwe in the Erongo region on three counts of rape and two counts of common assault. 

Haipanda Simbungu, who on Tuesday last week turned himself in at the Ncaute police station after allegedly slaying his daughter Maria Isoni Simbungu earlier that same day, has been denied bail by the Rundu Magistrate’s Court.

The official registration of the four-man team cycling for the 2023 Nedbank Namibia Desert Dash Competition entries will officially open at 10h00 on Monday 19 June 2023, the organisers have announced.

The Nedbank Kapana Cook-Off 2023 competition, which was launched in May this year, will have its first preliminary round at Oshakati tomorrow when more than 150 kapana enthusiasts are expected to showcase their kapana braaiing skills. 

Twelve Namibian artists will exhibit their work at the Classic Framers framing shop and gallery in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown), South Africa from 22 June to August. 

The Namibian Stock Exchange (NSX) announced its advancement of membership status with admission as a full member of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) after being an affiliate member for over a decade.