Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

The Public Service Union of Namibia (PSUN) has jumped into the fray with the Roads Contractor Company regarding what they call illegal deductions from employees. 

I was born in the then-rural village of Uturu in Nigeria. For fear of becoming the proverbial village boy, wandering through the evil forest at the expense of schooling, my family exposed me to city life early.

I was shocked when I learned that Matti Mwandingi is no more. It sounded surreal.

The Ministry of Gender, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, with assistance from the European Union, inaugurated two early childhood development centres in the Zambezi region last week.

The Mobile Telecommunications Company last week donated four classrooms and a storeroom to Onaushe Combined school in Uuvudhiya constituency, Oshana region, under its Rural Schools Project.

President Hage Geingob has refused to go into detail on the scandal that erupted in South Africa around that country’s president Cyril Ramaphosa over his role in allegedly covering up the robbery at his Phala Phala farm in February 2020.

The health ministry has confirmed a total of 23 suspected cases of measles that have been reported in the Omusati region early this month.

Former Gobabis mayor Liberius Kalili has denied claims by current mayor Elvire Theron that “corruption” in the eastern town of Gobabis has stalled the town’s 1995 twinning agreement with the Smallingerland municipality in the Dutch province of Friesland.

The rape, assault, attempted rape and attempted murder trial of a Windhoek resident, who is accused of 23 offences, including the mutilation of a 10-year-old girl in 2018, was postponed yesterday as the prosecutor is “indisposed.” 

The minister of urban and rural development, Erastus Uutoni, is in support of the idea to decentralise traditional courts in order to manage and reduce the overwhelming piles of cases at tribal headquarters.