Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

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.

The empty houses constructed under the Massive Urban Land Servicing Project (MULSP) at Walvis Bay will finally get owners. This follows after the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development gave the Walvis Bay municipality the go-ahead to sell the houses.

The Brave Warriors began their 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers with an uninspiring one-all draw against Burundi in the opening game of their Group C game at FNB Stadium on Saturday.