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WALVIS BAY – Transport companies or truck owners operating on cross-border routes will no longer be allowed to quarantine their drivers at truck ports, health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula announced yesterday. 

The Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentarian, Leon Schreiber, has called on the South African government to emulate President Hage Geingob’s decision to ban the procurement of new vehicles for government ministers and public office bearers until 2025.
The DA is the South African official opposition party. 

The Outapi Town Council in Omusati region is extremely concerned by the escalating number of land-grabbing incidents targeting planned and proclaimed land at the town.

The State has accused those implicated in the multi-million-dollar fisheries bribery scandal of having contributed to the country’s economic demise. 

The Khomas police have confirmed that two truck drivers violated quarantine regulations after they snuck out of a mandatory quarantine facility and allegedly wandered around Goreangab and Hakahana this past weekend. 

AN arrest warrant has been issued for a 48-year-old man who yesterday failed to show up for his scheduled judgement hearing in the
Windhoek High Court. Jan Moses Uamunika is charged with murder for the alleged killing of Rehoboth farmer Joseph Adriaan Shorty
Barth, who was 69 years old at the time of his demise in 2017.

The first long weekend after the easing of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions resulted in an upsurge in critical injuries and death on national 
roads.

A Groot Aub septuagenarian, who sews face masks that prevent the spread of Covid-19, encouraged other tailors to move out of their comfort zones and start sewing the much sought-after face masks.

A 56-year-old Namibian-born lost his life to coronavirus on Saturday in the United Kingdom, the authorities confirmed yesterday.  
The victim was identified as Abiud Uazeua, who lived with his family in Nottingham. 

One of the officers investigating the infamous Fishrot scandal says the amount misappropriated by those implicated has increased to N$13o million.