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The Walvis Bay municipal council will finally write off millions in outstanding debt for pensioners, while ordinary residents and businesses at the harbour town will also have some of their interest waived.

Icelandic companies at the centre of the fisheries bribery scandal will not get the opportunity to cross-examine prosecutor general Martha Imalwa and whistleblower-turned-State-witness Jóhannes Stefánsson after the High Court dismissed their appeal last week.

Walvis Bay-based fishing company Etosha Fishing has been struggling to sell a horse mackerel quota that was allocated to them in March by the fisheries ministry.

Rally for Democracy and Progress parliamentarian Mike Kavekotora has tabled a motion calling on government to conduct a thorough investigation and analysis on various “questionable” projects initiated by the authorities. 

Teachers at the Elondo-West Combined School in the Omusati region say their environment is not conducive any longer due to the invasion of snakes around their sleeping quarters. 

The Kavango West regional leadership last week conducted a follow up visit to the Kavango Cattle Ranch, which was recently in the news for having fallen into disrepair.

Young Warriors head coach Collin Benjamin remains optimistic that they can still rejuvenate their campaign by beating Angola in tomorrow’s return leg at the 11 de Novembro Stadium in Luanda. 

The Fifa-appointed Normalisation Committee for the Namibia Football Association (NFA) yesterday uplifted and set aside the expulsion of the Namibia Premier League (NPL) executive committee members, saying the decision by the NFA to banish the members was illegal as it had no legal grounds.

For many, he is the well-spoken and energetic Kaisames radio station sports anchor but in real life, Ricardo Garoeb, famously known as ‘Uncle Happiness’, used to be a magical baller of note. New Era Sport caught up with the likeable popular socialite as he goes full throttle reliving his untold football journey, and how being harshly elbowed out of his job almost drove him to suicide.

Yesterday, the Fifa-appointed Normalisation Committee for the Namibia Football Association (NFA) announced that it had overturned the expulsion of the Namibia Premier League (NPL) executive committee members, who were indefinitely exiled from all football activities by the association in 2020.