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The Katima Mulilo Town Council is adamant the demolishing of houses two weeks ago was necessitated by the continuous refusal of illegal land occupiers to be relocated to a demarcated site.

The Ministry of Urban and Rural Development has authorised an amount of N$55.4 million for the Omaheke Regional Council’s operational expenditure for the 2022/23 financial year.

President Hage Geingob left Namibia last week on a multi-nation tour that started in Angola and will end in the USA on 27 September.

The veld fires that had devastated farms around Rehoboth for almost a week have not yet been put out completely. 

Independent Patriots for Change’s councillor Dina Namubes was elected the new Swakopmund mayor yesterday morning.

Already struggling to remain financially afloat, the Namibia Football Association (NFA) last week suffered a massive blow at the office of the labour commissioner after arbitrator Liwela Sasele ordered the NFA to reinstate and pay hefty damages to former employee Werner ‘Kapepe’ Shikwambi, who was unfairly dismissed in 2020.

Vedanta Limited, the largest Indian investor in South Africa’s mining industry, recently signed two agreements with the state of Gujarat of India to set up a semiconductor fabrication plant, commonly referred to as a fab unit, a display fab unit, and a semiconductor assembling and testing unit in Ahmedabad in western India. 

The world of work continues to change at an unprecedented pace. People now have more choices and are no longer confined to one job for life or constrained by geographical locations.

FirstRand Namibia this week announced its results for the year ended 30 June 2022. The group delivered normalised earnings of N$1.86 billion exceeding peak 2016 earnings by 6.7%.