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On 2 October 1904, the colonial regime from Germany issued an extermination proclamation (known in German as Vernichtungsbefehl).

The National Road Safety Council has raised concerns that strategies created to bring about safer roads are not aligned and do not complement each other.

The police in the Zambezi confirmed maize smuggling into the region from neighbouring Zambia through ungazetted entry points has been on the decline.

Windhoek High Court Judge Herman January on Friday dismissed an application by a former teacher who allegedly stabbed his wife 12 times in front of their children, causing her death, to quash two of the charges he is facing.

The Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia has handed over three completed greenhouse units, a hydroponic unit for fodder production, a nursery, one borehole retrofitted with solar as well as a 10 000-litre water tank and a cold storage facility to the Okongo Community Forestry Horticultural Project in the Ohangwena region last Tuesday.

A technical committee has been appointed to meet liberation struggle icon and parliamentarian Jerry Ekandjo over the Swapo central committee’s (CC) decision not to include him in the race for vice president at next month’s intraparty elective congress. 

The police have indicated that the remains of Adrian Myne Oswyn (6), who was brutally killed and dismembered two weeks ago in Karibib, will be released to the family this week.

The Agro-Marketing and Trade Agency (AMTA) is concerned about certain individuals who have been accused of smuggling fresh produce into the country via ungazetted entry points from neighbouring countries such as Zambia and Angola.

A man drowned in the Greenwell Matongo residential area while trying to unblock a sewage drain at about 14h00 on Saturday.