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//Kharas governor, Aletha Frederick said disability is a development issue because there is a direct link between poverty and disability.

While new Covid-19 infections have skyrocketed in the last two weeks, most experts are confident local hospitals can cope with the new wave but remain worried about low vaccination rates.

Patron of the Ovaherero Red Flag Association Ben Zaaruka has described the weekend’s Ovaherero Chiefs Council meeting held at Onderombapa in the Aminuis constituency as illegal, null and void while warning those who convened the gathering not to “pee on their tradition”.

The Ministry of Mines and Energy sent a team to investigate the “unfamiliar content” discovered in the Vaalgras area in the //Kharas region over the weekend.

Anti-Corruption Commission of Namibia director general Paulus Noa believes corruption has been legalised in Namibia, making the work of the anti-graft agency difficult. 

The labour ministry will ensure the incident in which three workers died last Tuesday at the Ongos Valley housing development outside Windhoek is fully investigated.

The N$74 million lawsuits against government, lodged by the president of Namibia Transport and Taxi Union (NTTU), Werner Januarie, will only be heard next year. 

A 48-year-old Angolan man Joao Kasanga was due to appear in court yesterday after he was allegedly found with pangolin scales during a sting operation last week by the Kavango West police. 

Namibia’s veteran boxer Lukas ‘The Demolisher’ Ndafoluma has blamed Saturday’s eighth-round technical knockout defeat to South Africa’s Nkululeko ‘The Bulldog’ Mhlongo on a recurring flu that caused major difficulties in breathing throughout their fight.

Omupeduwiliki wouministeli woukashikekookanhu nonghalonawa yokaana Martha Mbombo okwa ti ovadali nava xulife po okukala tava longifa nai oimaliwa yopeendjela younona.