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WINDHOEK - Despite President Hage Geingob’s call last year on the Ministry of Land Reform to put its shoulder to the wheel
in starting to implement laws prohibiting illegal fencing, the ministry said yesterday it has only remo

WINDHOEK – A campaign by activists to rename Katutura – Windhoek’s historic symbol of forced removals
– is picking up intensity. According to Hendrich Amutenya, the name Katutura stems from residents living

WINDHOEK – Hendrik Atab Swartz, a resident of Mariental whoadmitted he strangled a 16-yearold girl to death near a cemetery between October 19 and 21, 2016 – and was further convicted on two attempted murder counts, one count

WINDHOEK - The Namibian Police Deputy Commissioner Joseph Shimweelao Shikongo was promoted to rank of
Commissioner and appointed as the Khomas police regional commander on Wednesday, replacing Commissioner Sylvanus Nghishidimbwa.

KEETMANSHOOP – Residents of //Kharas Region turned up in big numbers at a gathering in Keetmanshoop on Workers Day to partake in the commemoration of this important workers’ event as well as the belated Independence Day celebrations. 

WINDHOEK – The major challenge being experienced in higher education is that the funding allocation to this crucial sector has not been commensurate with the significant growth of programme offerings, student numbers and infrastructural expansion needed at higher education institutions.

WINDHOEK - President Hage Geingob in a speech read on his behalf at yesterday’s Workers Day celebration, urged all Namibians to embrace the culture of sharing – and if they are unable to do so, they must be taught to do so.

WINDHOEK –  Suspended Windhoek City Police chief Abraham Kanime wants the High Court to put aside his suspension on the basis it is unfair, unnecessary, unlawful and unconstitutional.  

WALVIS BAY - Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu) Secretary General Petrus Nevonga has accused the regional and local political leadership of using cheap politics to sabotage May Day commemorations held yesterday at Walvis Bay.

WINDHOEK - Lukas Nepela Nikodemus, the man charged with the murder and burning of two young women at a rubbish dump in Pionierspark suburb in Windhoek, stuck to his story that he did not kill the deceased and was framed by a person called Bennie when he testified in his own defense during Monday and Tuesday this week in the Windhoek High Court.