Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Councillor of Windhoek rural constituency Piet Adams has requested the Khomas Regional Council to address the plight of generational farm workers as well as the plight of evicted people from commercial farms residing in road reserves.

Lack of infrastructure, development and resettlement were among the concerns highlighted in Ohangwena’s state of the region address (SORA) last week.

Landowners in the Rehoboth district feel that farming cannot co-exist alongside increasing mineral prospecting or mining activities, and that the Namibian government has to draw a definitive dividing line between the two.

In an unprecedented move, the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) on Saturday elected current Swakopmund mayor Lovisa Kativa to contest for the vacant position of Swakopmund constituency councillor.

The police in the Khomas region are investigating a case of culpable homicide after two brothers lost their lives in an accident in the early hours of Saturday in Windhoek. 

The late filing of one of six people, convicted of carrying out an armed robbery at the Westlane Lifestyle Centre in Windhoek in 2017, resulted in his appeal being dismissed by the High Court on Friday.

The Ovaherero Paramount Chief Advocate Vekuii Rukoro’s tombstone unveiling has been set to coincide with the annual Red Flag commemoration in Okahandja during the weekend of 15 to17 July. 

Incoming Member of Parliament Reginald Diergaardt said the current levels of abuse and denigration of individuals and leaders in the country has reached pandemic proportions and requires immediate intervention. 

Many, many moons ago, world-renowned civil rights activist the great Martin Luther King Jr reminded us about the importance of unity when he said: “We must learn to live
together as brothers or be prepared to perish together as fools”.