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Parents must always be watchful, responsible and supportive of their daughters before they fall for affluent lifestyles.

We live in a society which can best be described as eroded and devoid of any respect for one another as the human race. It is a society in which we callously neglect our responsibilities, a society where dog-eat-dog is the motto and order of the day.

Canadian company ReconAfrica, which is conducting oil exploration activities in the Kavango East and West regions, recently donated N$15 million towards the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the two regions.

The Namibian National Association of the Deaf (NNAD) on Friday received N$100 000 and a brand new Apple computer from the Momentum Metropolitan Empowerment Trust.

The chairperson of the Namibian Association of Local Authority Officers (NALAO) and the chief executive of the Otjiwarongo municipality Moses Matyayi says the divestment of the electricity sector from local authorities has made the latter suffer.

The urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni encouraged local authority councillors to concentrate more on land delivery instead of fighting each other, as it hinders the progress of housing delivery.

Mines and Energy minister Tom Alweendo has called on members of the public who have knowledge of cases where his ministry’s officials own licences through proxies to report such cases to his office or to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for investigation.

The State on Friday argued that the High Court misdirected itself when it acquitted psychiatrist Pieter van der Westhuizen (64), accused of raping one of his patients at his consulting rooms at Swakopmund.

Senior Anti-Corruption Commission investigator Andreas Kanyangela testified on Friday that Fishrot accused Ricardo Gustavo is not a viable candidate for bail.

MTC raised a massive N$2.541 billion through the largest initial public offering (IPO) the country has ever seen, but fell short of the N$3.1 billion they had hoped to raise.