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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.

Despite receiving an eviction order to vacate the Hosea Kutako International Airport, United Kingdom-based company Menzies Aviation is forging ahead to have the Namibia Airports Company’s decision to award the ground handling contract to Paragon and partners reviewed. 

The Windhoek High Court on Monday struck the appeal of a man convicted of strangling to death the elder sister of the mother of his three children in 2012, from the roll.

The weathered skin on the face of Brenda Bock twitches as she narates her story. Despite a lifetime of hardship, she is hopeful for a better life, and that she could one day live with all her children.