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To improve computer literacy, the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency donated 19 computers to the youth of the //Kharas region.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Otjinene constituency office on Tuesday to pay homage to all those who succumbed to Covid-19 and to also witness the unveiling of the memorial wall that is erected in their honour.

The Electoral Commission of Namibia has confirmed that 37 175 could cast their vote for a new regional councillor of the Swakopmund constituency in the by-elections, slated for 12 August this year.

It appears there will not be any rest in the frenzy currently gripping the Landless People’s Movement after the party yesterday withdrew Charlcyta Cooper from the Keetmanshoop local authority with immediate effect.

Over 100 workers of the Cheetah Cement factory at Otjiwarongo embarked on a strike for better pay yesterday, while the company has threatened retrenchments and reminded workers that they will not be paid during the strike.

With copper prices on the rise, theft of metal is disrupting business in the communications sector as the police look to crack down on the culprits. 

A Russian company exploring for uranium in the Omaheke region continues to ruffle the feathers of local farmers and environmental groups.

Forex traders Michael Amushelelo and Gregory Cloete are asking the department of Legal Aid in the Ministry of Justice to pay for a senior counsel (advocate) to represent them in their upcoming fraud trial in the Windhoek High Court.

US President Joe Biden has nominated a career foreign service officer who was the State Department’s first special envoy for human rights of LGBTI people, Randy Berry, as the new US ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Namibia.

Murder accused British farmer and businessman, Harvey Boulter has asked the prosecutor general (PG) to reconsider the charges he is facing in the High Court.