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More than 100 000 government employees are gearing up for what could amount to the biggest-ever strike since independence after government and the bargaining unions reached a deadlock and a certificate of unresolved dispute was issued.

Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi believes Roads Authority CEO Conrad Lutombi should be hired to become the city’s administrative head in the interest
of Windhoek residents.

The Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement has fired its spokesperson Simon Amunime and head of elections Paulus Kathanga for dragging the movement’s name in the mud and sowing seeds of division within its rank and file. 

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday confirmed the investigation into corruption claims levelled against former ministers Katrina Hanse-Himarwa and Alpheus !Naruseb in allocating a resettlement farm to Hanse-Himarwa’s son Denzil Tryane Hanse in 2015 is now with the PG for a decision.

Eight northern traditional authorities have expressed frustration over local authority councils, who are taking their land without compensation.

The Oshakati Town Council plans to create more than 3 000 temporary jobs through housing construction contracts with various small and medium enterprises in town.

The lawyer representing a former senior police officer attached to the Women and Child Protection Unit in Keetmanshoop on Thursday informed Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula that they are still waiting for his client to be seen by a psychiatrist.

Two trial-awaiting inmates at the Windhoek Correctional Facility have petitioned the Attorney-General to intervene in what they call serious infringements on their constitutional rights.

The prosecutor-general has declined to prosecute two men who were accused of the death of a man whose body was found stuffed in a freezer near Katutura’s Herero Mall.

The Trade Union Congress of Namibia (Tucna) has urged the defence ministry to remove Covid-19 vaccination and HIV testing requirements for employment consideration.