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Whilst it is the government’s obligation to provide its citizens with clean water, accessing clean water for livelihoods continues to be a daunting challenge for many Namibians living in low-income communities and rural settings.

There is a new sheriff in the village of Okondjatu, located approximately 190 kilometres northeast of Okahandja, in the vastly populated Otjozondjupa region.

Residents of the Samora Machel constituency, who demonstrated at the constituency office in Wanaheda last month, alleging tribalism in distribution of food bank parcels, are still waiting for feedback from the authorities.

The long-running trial of prominent Windhoek lawyer Dirk Conradie and his friend Sara Damases resumed this week in the Windhoek High Court before Judge Thomas Masuku after a hiatus of more than a year.

Trouble continues to brew in Omaheke, with both the regional council and the Gobabis Municipality seemingly unable to account for public resources entrusted to them.

The Windhoek High Court yesterday convicted two men of sexually violating a woman at Otjorukune Reserve in the Gobabis area in 2017. 

The chairperson of the Erongo regional council and Swakopmund councillor Ciske Smith-Howard has been labelled disruptive, ill-mannered and an enemy of progress by some of her fellow councillors, who tabled a vote of no confidence motion against her.

Urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni insisted yesterday that he was still consulting on what steps to take as tension reached boiling point at the embattled Grootfontein municipality, where a power struggle has raged for months.

Former judicial officer Walter ‘Rooies’ Mostert’s court victory was short-lived as the police acquired a lawful warrant of arrest within hours of his case being provisionally withdrawn.  

The newly-established Namibia Local Business Association has condemned and requested government to stop the intention to lease 11 green schemes through the ministry of agriculture to potential foreign investors.