Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

The lawyer representing a former senior police officer attached to the Women and Child Protection Unit in Keetmanshoop last week informed Windhoek High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg that his client is being assessed by a State psychiatrist.

A group of women have embraced backyard gardening at the Mix settlement in the Windhoek Rural constituency as they donated their first harvest to a local kindergarten. 

In the quest to plough back into the community, the Ondangwa Town Council has partnered with the Valombola Vocational Training Centre to provide internships in pipefitting and plumbing to eight trainees from the town for the next three years.

One of the businessmen, accused of defrauding the government of N$3.5 billion in taxes, has withdrawn his application in which he wanted the High Court to compel the prosecutor general from proceeding to prosecute him on charges of fraud and money laundering.

DNA analysis is still outstanding in the case of two men, accused of raping and murdering a 29-year-old woman, whose body was found dumped at a church last year.

Statelessness, one of the serious human rights issues, has been put at the forefront of the ministry of home affairs’ agenda.

A regional dialogue convened by a collaboration of southern African organisations, led by the Partnership for Social Accountability (PSA) Alliance recently, has concluded that political will, anchored on enabling national legislation or policies, is needed to set up effective SADC National Committees (SNCs) if the region is to benefit from the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan 2020-2

The High Court has compelled the Swakopmund Regional Court to hear the third bail application of a pastor, accused of kidnapping and raping members of his congregation.