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Farmworkers on a farm in Kavango West region picked up five pieces of elephant tusks at a water point on Monday. The workers informed the police and handed over the ivory pieces.

The police have finalised investigations into the case of three men who are accused of allegedly breaking into the Katutura Magistrate’s Court in July.

The parents of more than 300 learners at Onaisaati Combined School near Eenhana in the Ohangwena region can’t afford to buy school uniforms, and the children are thus forced to wear old clothes. 

A man who was claiming N$900 000 for being severely assaulted by police officers to the extent of defecating, had his suit dismissed by the Windhoek High Court yesterday.

Windhoek mayor Job Amupanda yesterday attempted to put to rest rumours that he is advocating to be re-elected as Windhoek’s first resident, saying he abides by the coalition agreement for the rotation of positions.

South Africa’s Financial Services Tribunal has effectively agreed with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange that Trustco has been using some questionable accounting methods to make its financial results more attractive. 

City of Windhoek coalition partners have castigated Independent Patriots for Change leader Panduleni Itula, whom they accused of going behind their backs and negotiating with the Landless People’s Movement to join the ‘progressive forces’.

The bail application of former minister of justice Sackey Shanghala’s employee, Nigel van Wyk, that was to start yesterday in the Windhoek High Court before Oshakati-based judge Johanna Salionga, was remanded to today on request of the defence.

The wife of a City of Windhoek employee, who was brutally stoned to death in 2015, yesterday continued her denial that she was not complicit in the death of her husband.

National Assembly Speaker Peter Katjavivi yesterday led Namibia’s delegation to the 143rd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to be held in Madrid, Spain.