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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victory was short-lived as the police acquired a lawful warrant of arrest within hours of his case being provisionally withdrawn.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. 

Work will officially kick off on the upgrading of four rural schools that have been aided by the Chinese government. 

The national water utility has in recent months insisted on its pound of flesh for water supplied during the Covid-19 state of emergency from local authorities who opened taps in informal settlements. 

Namibia’s former world champions Paulus ‘The Hitman’ Moses and Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda yesterday showered praise on Jeremiah ‘Lowkey’ Nakathila for putting up an impeccable performance in his solid win over Mexico’s Miguel Berchelt late Saturday in Las Vegas, USA.

Herbert Peters was crowned the overall men’s winner and Anri Krugel as the overall best female rider of the inaugural PSG Ride the Ridges MTB three-day stage race, which took place over the weekend at Heja Lodge.