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The office of the Auditor General, tasked to evaluate infrastructure maintenance at government schools, found public schools countrywide to be in a perilous state.

The embattled National Fishing Corporation of Namibia is probing a possible scam in which N$8 million was paid to people, whose names were allegedly illegally added to that of former Seaflower Pelagic Processing’s relief grant recipients.

A sprawling cattle farm in the Kavango West region, under the care of the Namibia Industrial Development Agency, has been abandoned with livestock roaming around unattended while infrastructure has deteriorated.

A workshop at the Windhoek Correctional Facility was gutted by fire on Monday, destroying machines and finished materials. 

The Supreme Court ruled the Herero Royal Red Flag Association has a legal claim to a city plot of which the rival faction wants ownership. 

A failure to adequately pay his legal team caused a Windhoek resident, who is accused of raping his biological daughter several times and forcing her to abort the foetus, to lose his legal aid lawyer and an advocate he instructed to defend him during the last stretch of his trial.

Incumbent Swapo regional coordinator in Omaheke Ruth Kaukuata-Mbura and the region’s information and mobilisation officer Ebben Handura, are the only two candidates to contest the party’s top post, New Era has learned.

Some of the homeless people who witnessed the gruesome murder of their mate on Sunday, described the incident as unfortunate.

Fishrot accused Ricardo Gustavo is fighting tooth and nail to have High Court Acting Judge Kobus Miller recuse himself from his trial, fearing he won’t be impartial.

Namibian football pundits and the general public have taken to various public platforms to praise and pay tribute to Brave Warriors head coach Collin Benjamin.