Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

The long-running trial of prominent Windhoek lawyer Dirk Conradie and his friend Sara Damases resumed this week in the Windhoek High Court before Judge Thomas Masuku after a hiatus of more than a year.

Trouble continues to brew in Omaheke, with both the regional council and the Gobabis Municipality seemingly unable to account for public resources entrusted to them.

The Windhoek High Court yesterday convicted two men of sexually violating a woman at Otjorukune Reserve in the Gobabis area in 2017. 

The chairperson of the Erongo regional council and Swakopmund councillor Ciske Smith-Howard has been labelled disruptive, ill-mannered and an enemy of progress by some of her fellow councillors, who tabled a vote of no confidence motion against her.

Former judicial officer Walter ‘Rooies’ Mostert’s court victory was short-lived as the police acquired a lawful warrant of arrest within hours of his case being provisionally withdrawn.  

Work will officially kick off on the upgrading of four rural schools that have been aided by the Chinese government. 

The national water utility has in recent months insisted on its pound of flesh for water supplied during the Covid-19 state of emergency from local authorities who opened taps in informal settlements. 

Herbert Peters was crowned the overall men’s winner and Anri Krugel as the overall best female rider of the inaugural PSG Ride the Ridges MTB three-day stage race, which took place over the weekend at Heja Lodge.