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A47-year-old woman from Five Rand location in Okahandja, who sells vetkoek, kapana and oshikundu to feed her six children, is pleading for public assistance after her house was gutted by fire last Tuesday.

Staffers of the Ekulo Senior Secondary School in the Oshikoto region have applauded Build it for the donation of a 5 000-litre water tank.

“People can protest in the streets but if you and I are not ready to join all those who speak out on GBV, we can call this nation a doomed nation,” she said while speaking at a GBV event in Aroab in the //Kharas region. 

A 14-year-old learner of the Schuckmansburg Secondary School in the Luhonono area of Zambezi region committed suicide on Friday reportedly after she was asked to return a cell phone stolen from a teacher at the school. 

The Windhoek High Court yesterday granted the State leave to appeal a murder sentence of a Windhoek resident, whose 10-year sentence was wholly suspended for five years by the local regional court.  

A resident of Mpungu, who attacked and murdered his grandfather with an axe and a panga – and is now seeking to appeal his conviction and sentence of 25 years, had his case postponed to early next year.

Swapo parliamentarian Lucia Witbooi says education remains the greatest equaliser and a learning process in which knowledge, skills and habits are passed on within generations. 

Outgoing Popular Democratic Movement Youth League secretary general Bensen Katjirijova has urged party members contesting for positions at the upcoming youth league’s elective congress to desist from factionalism and exercise their campaigns in the most disciplined manner.

Bail-seeking former Fishcor CEO Mike Nghipunya claimed documents related to his business affairs, which were retrieved from his work computer could have been forged or tampered with. 

A young woman, who was on Saturday forced by her employer to strip off her uniform in full view of customers, is demanding compensation from her now former employer, saying she suffered humiliation.