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Dubbed ‘Economic Revival and Caring for the Poor’, the N$84.6 billion 2023-2024 budget has drawn the ire of some and brought joy to others, with some parliamentarians asking President Hage Geingob to remove “deadwood” ministers from his Cabinet if achieving meaningful results is his goal.

At least nine schools in the flood-prone Kabbe area have been inundated by heavy floods, leaving learners and teachers fearing drownings or being bitten by snakes, which have found the swampy schools’ field a haven. 

Namibian taxpayers owe the Namibia Revenue Agency over N$69 billion through capital debts, interest and penalties.

The Motor Vehicle Accident Fund wants to proceed with a High Court judgement regarding an investment tender, despite the fact that the case has now been taken to the Supreme Court. 

Suicide among men continues to be a concern, as two men took their own lives on Wednesday at the coast.

Stock theft and timber smuggling remain a major challenge in Sibbinda and Kongola constituencies as local farmers lose livestock which is often driven into neighbouring Zambia through the thick unguarded border.

A resident of Stinkwater who received 12 goats through the Khomas Regional Council community funding project, is not happy with the animals he received, saying they are immature and not worth the budget allocated to him.

The prosecutor general has decided to have a 42-year-old man accused of sexually violating his 14-year-old daughter several times, and forcing her to abort, stand trial in the Windhoek High Court.