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The Walvis Bay municipality yesterday launched its strategic plan for the current period until 2026, with an emphasis on transforming the harbour town into an industrial hub.

A 49-year-old employee of the Agro-Marketing and Trade Agency, stationed at Katima Mulilo, has been denied bail following his appearance in the local magistrate’s court, where he is facing corruption charges. 

Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen yesterday issued a warrant of arrest for a 31-year-old woman from Aussenkehr in the //Kharas region, who is accused of killing her six-month-old son. 

Meatco CEO Mwilima Mushokabanji has said the myth that has dominated the country’s discourse that beef from the Northern Communal Areas cannot be consumed is “a matter of the past”.

Although women and children are mostly affected by domestic violence, Swapo parliamentarian Tobie Aupindi believes some women are accomplices to the scourge. 

Unam Rugby Club on Saturday overpowered Wanderers 37-31 in a well-attended premier league match at the Unam stadium in the capital.

Twenty teams are expected to tussle for top honours in the newly-launched Ongos Valley Futsal Winter Cup slated for next month in the capital.

Debmarine Desert Jewels head coach Sunette Burden said the Tri-Nations competition held last week was of great importance, as it helped them gauge themselves ahead of the 2023 World Cup qualifiers set for Cape Town, South Africa in August this year.

The MTC Windhoek Fashion week has not only become a highly-anticipated fashion spectacle in the country, but continuously usher in a crop of new faces on the runways.

Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) parliamentarian Nico Smit is concerned that the fast rising repo rate goes against very basic economic fundamentals. Speaking during a media briefing on Friday, Smit cautioned that a sudden increase in the repo rate would result in a liquidity risk to the broader economy.