Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

A case of murder has been opened against a police officer who allegedly fatally shot suspected robbers at a temporary roadblock at Ngarama-Teya village in Rundu Rural constituency on Monday night.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia has proposed to the Outapi Town Council to rename the Olufuko Cultural Festival for church members to be able to participate in the event as the current name is repulsive.

President Hage Geingob yesterday encouraged international investors who have not yet invested in Namibia to make an investment decision and become investment partners. 

Rail and road services operator TransNamib last Thursday received a letter of demand from now defunct Belgian company, Challenge Air, to pay more than N$160 million (9.863 million euros) for a botched lease agreement with Air Namibia in 1998. 

Namibia Wildlife Resorts and the tourism and public enterprises ministers have asked the court to be absolved from the N$7.5 million defamation suit filed against them by former NWR managing director, Zelna Hengari. 

Russian national Alexander Krylof testified this week in his own defence after Acting Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen ordered that he and his Namibian counterpart Anna Katrina Engelbrecht must answer the 42 counts of rape and child trafficking, in addition to a charge of supplying minors with cigarettes.

The Walvis Bay lagoon was a hive of activity as local residents today flocked there to collect their day’s meal when hundreds of fish washed ashore.

The Khomas Basketball Association (KBA), as per its yearly tradition, hosted a successful Independence Cup in the capital, which saw local sides sweating it out for supremacy and honour.