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Health and Social Services’ minister Kalumbi Shangula commissioned a 4.2 tonnes medical oxygen tank at the Gobabis State Hospital last week.

Since the early hours of Saturday, all roads in Windhoek seemed to lead to the Pioneer’s Park cemetery.

Deputy prosecutor general Antonia Verhoef last week asked Windhoek High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg to move a former senior police officer attached to the Women and Child Protection Unit in Keetmanshoop from Seeis police station to the section for trial awaiting inmates at the Windhoek Correctional Facility.

Hilaria Mukapuli, a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Gender Equality, Social Development and Family Affairs, expressed her resentment at statements made by community members saying most of the time “women ask for it”, which she described as painful and disturbing. 

After five days of searching the Kavango River, the Namibian Police in Kavango West have recovered the body of 15-year-old Frans Nekare Ngongo.

Desert Jewels’ captain Nanguloshi Kamutushi said they are ready to make the country proud at the World Cup qualifiers in Pretoria, South Africa from Sunday to 27 August.

Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) league defending champions Unam will be hoping to redeem themselves from back-to-back defeats at the horns of coastal outfit Kudus this season when they meet in the semi-finals at the Jan Wilken stadium in Walvis Bay on Saturday.

A strict disciplinarian and uncompromising fitness fanatic, former Thistle Football Club’s hard-as-nails fullback Edward ‘Nose’ Morgenroth is one of the most revered yet less talked-about personalities in Namibian football. 

Aiming to empower women in sport, television sports anchor Joviita Kandjumbwa launched ‘She Reps’ sports magazine earlier this week. 

Applications are now open for professional artists to attend an Artists’ Retreat from 1 to 16 October 2022 at Baker’s Bay, situated in the Tsau //Khaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park.