Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

The trucking community has been urged to avoid skipping weighbridges so their trucks are weighed to help with the proper planning and management of the country’s road infrastructure.

As Swapo turns 62 years today, secretary general Sophia Shaningwa has urged members to protect and treat the party as ‘an egg’ as it has become fragile and vulnerable due to divisions and infighting.

Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security Albert Kawana on Wednesday said 348 Namibians married foreign nationals in the previous fiscal year.

Approval of the budgetary allocation of N$110 million to the National Assembly for the financial year 2022/23 has been deferred after the Speaker of the National Assembly Peter Katjavivi, supported by members of parliament in the National Assembly, bemoaned the allocation they described as inadequate.

Items that were seized without a search warrant from a guesthouse in Windhoek where two American nationals, accused of the assassin-like murder of Andre Heckmair were staying, could be used as evidence in their ongoing trial.

Parliament came under fire over the Easter holiday for allegedly sweeping corruption under the carpet after staff stole N$1.2 million.

Speculation around the new container terminal was finally put to rest when the Namibia Ports Authority announced that they will be leasing it for the next 25 years.

Windhoek High Court acting Judge Petrus Unengu on Thursday sentenced fraud convict Immanuel David Freitas Dias to a N$200 000 fine or five years imprisonment, plus a further five years, suspended wholly for five years. 

Declining transaction volumes are mostly to blame for a notable contraction in the country’s average house prices. 

Netball Namibia (NN) vice president Rebekka /Goagoses yesterday strongly dismissed growing insinuations that her fellow board members of the local netball association are plotting to illegally extend their term of office.