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There appears to be hope on the horizon for the northern communal areas, currently cut off from the rest of the country and some lucrative markets for their livestock, if assurances by Meatco are anything to go by. 

Murder accused siblings who are accused of murdering the young Shannon Wasserfall, made their first pre-trial appearance in the Windhoek High Court yesterday.

Hostile witnesses and the lack of collaboration or slow response for information crucial to cases from various entities remain a challenge for the Anti-Corruption Commission. 

Windhoek-based lawyer Jermaine Muchali successfully defended a man who was accused of stabbing another man to death during a fight at a bar.

The agriculture ministry has cautioned farmers and the public to be on high alert after the outbreak of the Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia, commonly known as lung disease.

President Hage Geingob arrived in Rwanda on Wednesday evening for the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

A lawyer representing a trial-awaiting man accused of kidnapping, raping and strangling a woman to death, withdrew his services yesterday in the High Court. 

Those who worked closely with forensic pathologist Dr Paul Stefan Ludik have lauded him as “one of the greatest”, if not the only pioneer in Namibia’s forensic fraternity, saying he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the local forensic science institute. 

Forex traders Michael Amushelelo and Gregory Cloete have reached a financial crunch that they are now looking to the State to provide them with legal representation for their upcoming criminal trial.