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The Namibian Constitution requires the State to provide free legal representation to anyone accused of crimes who cannot afford a private lawyer. 

Police officers at Oshikuku are under the spotlight for allegedly assaulting an inmate and smuggling illicit goods into police holding cells.

The Roads Authority (RA) has temporarily suspended all learner licence bookings at the Walvis Bay NaTIS centre as from Tuesday until 8 October. 

The lack of capacity within the urban and rural development ministry, a moratorium on travel as well as some administrative lapses were outlined as major contributing factors to underspending within the ministry.

Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi has equated government’s genocide deal with chief Joseph Fredericks II being swindled by an “unscrupulous” German businessman in April 1883. 

Nudo’s Josef Kauandenge has resoundingly rejected the genocide pact between Namibia and Germany, saying the agreement was not negotiated in good faith between the two countries. 

Building an adaptive education system that is resilient to future shocks will only be possible with the restoration of teachers’ roles as key actors, as well as to ensure learners’ inclusion.

The police are still busy investigating a case involving medical intern Dennis Noa who is accused of sexually violating an incapacitated patient at the Katutura Intermediate Hospital in April. 

Mining company Swakop Uranium has lodged an application for leave to appeal against an award of N$3.6 million for unfair retrenchment by an arbitrator that was confirmed by Windhoek High Court Judge Essi Schimming-Chase in the Labour Court. 

“He would sneak into my bedroom every time my mother was working nightshift, tie my hands on the bed, and force himself onto me,”