Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

A 14-year-old learner of the Schuckmansburg Secondary School in the Luhonono area of Zambezi region committed suicide on Friday reportedly after she was asked to return a cell phone stolen from a teacher at the school. 

The Windhoek High Court yesterday granted the State leave to appeal a murder sentence of a Windhoek resident, whose 10-year sentence was wholly suspended for five years by the local regional court.  

A resident of Mpungu, who attacked and murdered his grandfather with an axe and a panga – and is now seeking to appeal his conviction and sentence of 25 years, had his case postponed to early next year.

Swapo parliamentarian Lucia Witbooi says education remains the greatest equaliser and a learning process in which knowledge, skills and habits are passed on within generations. 

Outgoing Popular Democratic Movement Youth League secretary general Bensen Katjirijova has urged party members contesting for positions at the upcoming youth league’s elective congress to desist from factionalism and exercise their campaigns in the most disciplined manner.

Bail-seeking former Fishcor CEO Mike Nghipunya claimed documents related to his business affairs, which were retrieved from his work computer could have been forged or tampered with. 

A young woman, who was on Saturday forced by her employer to strip off her uniform in full view of customers, is demanding compensation from her now former employer, saying she suffered humiliation. 

Murder accused Coenraad Strydom was in the dock yesterday afternoon to answer to the death of his wife, Engela Borruso Strydom, a renowned real estate agent, who was killed in their communal home on Friday night.

Despite the police launching a manhunt for trial-awaiting former magistrate Walter ‘Rooies’ Mostert, who escaped from custody on Friday afternoon following a court appearance, the accused is still at large, Khomas regional commander commissioner Ismael Basson confirmed.

Health minister Kalumbi Shangula yesterday launched the African Union and Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) trusted travel system for the verification of Covid-19 test results and vaccination certificates.