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A Walvis Bay resident and her three children were left homeless and destitute after their shack was burnt to ashes last month. Ndina Shigwedha (23) now moves from house to house in search for overnight accommodation. 

After experiencing regular power outages for a number of days last week, homeowners at Osona Village just outside Okahandja have been assured the cause of the problem has been identified and that the situation is being closely monitored.

The Agro-Marketing and Trade Agency (AMTA) management has announced that for the past few months they have been installing an i-grain computer system to better monitor all its national strategic food reserves or silos. 

The Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRA) yesterday confirmed the arrest of two men, aged 51 and 33, on Monday in Windhoek for bribing a NamRA official. 

A 53-year-old Dutch national, who was murdered in front of his rented Swakopmund home on Monday, was not only known in the drug trafficking network but had a criminal history in the Netherlands, where he was also convicted of murder in 2001.

A political commentator says the current electoral system makes it difficult to hold parliamentarians accountable, suggesting there is a need to consider limiting their term in office to two and a half or three years, instead of the current five. 

President Hage Geingob yesterday reiterated the call for Namibia’s income level by the World Bank to be reclassified, saying the current classification as an upper middle-income country is insensitive to distortions created by the unequal distribution of resources. 

A local pharmaceutical company yesterday lodged an urgent application in the Windhoek High Court, where it is challenging certain bid conditions in a lucrative tender to supply medicine to government. 

Spouses who intend on divorcing will no longer have to travel to Windhoek or Oshakati as divorce matters will soon be heard in the lower courts. 

Various commentators have lauded parliamentarians in the National Assembly for passing the long-awaited Access to Information Bill. Institute for Public Policy Research director Graham Hopwood yesterday said the passing of the Bill was a “step forward in the country’s democracy”.