Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

City of Windhoek councillors have embarked on a clean-up campaign to reclaim the capital’s title of the cleanest city in Africa. 

The trial-within-a-trial of the two American nationals accused of the assassin-like murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in January 2011, was put on hold last week as the State’s last witness was unable to testify. 

A medical student, who was convicted for forging Covid-19 test results last year, scored a partial victory in the High Court yesterday.

A 42-year-old man accused of murdering his girlfriend and dumping her dead body at the victim’s parental home in Outjo last weekend, was yesterday denied bail. 

Employees at the Malaysian-owned Limkokwing University of Creative Technology have accused administrators at the university of corruption and discrimination, putting the blame squarely at the doors of its foreign administrators.

A State witness, who worked at the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology in Arandis, testified yesterday that accused Ernst Lichtenstrasser told then executive director Eckhardt Mueller to “sleep with one eye open”.

The Namibian Police’s Forensic Science Institute says it has prioritised the murder case of Shannon Wasserfall after receiving an additional N$6 million from Treasury to fast-track DNA samples required in the ongoing court case. 

Ombudsman Basilius Dyakugha has blasted government for concentrating on “theory conservation” and prioritising tourism ahead of local people’s lives while not implementing concrete measures to mitigate human-wildlife conflict in the Bwabwata National Park.

A 23rd minute solo effort by Namibian international Peter Shalulile proved enough to help carry his South African club Mamelodi Sundowns past Egyptian giants Al Ahly during Saturday’s Caf Champions League quarterfinals clash at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg.