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Milton Engelbrecht, the legal aid-instructed lawyer of a woman accused of murdering her six-month-old son by hitting his head on the ground, last week asked the court to find her not guilty of murder but of culpable homicide instead.

While receiving national documents, shack fire victims at Walvis Bay urged the education ministry to speed up the issuance of duplicate education documents, as they are struggling to secure or apply for jobs.

A teacher is pleading with government to intervene and improve the living conditions of some of her best pupils. 

A woman from Oshihepo village in the Ohangwena region who had endured regular assaults by her husband was allegedly shot and killed by him.

A former Brave Warriors and African Stars footballer and four other co-accused, who were arrested last week over stock theft charges in the Dordabis area, have been remanded in custody, following their court appearance last Friday. 

Weapons linked to murders, robberies as well as other illicit crimes were reduced to ashes on Saturday when the Namibian armed forces destroyed 5 532 firearms and 209 933 ammunition at a shooting range outside Walvis Bay.

Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarian Yvette Araes has cited the lack of women in politics as the major failure, resulting in women’s voices not being heard and taken seriously.

Acting CEO of the Roads Contractor Company Maria Nakale has come under fire from the Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters for allegedly being “greedy and self-centred” by working two jobs and collecting two salaries in a country where high unemployment is the norm. 

The Grootfontein municipality has issued a notice for a disciplinary hearing on numerous charges of misconduct against its CEO, Kisco Sinvula.

The Namibia Media Holdings and one of its former editors have succeeded in having a High Court ruling to pay damages to a Mariental farmer Johan Lombaard and his company Golden Game CC for defamation overturned.