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President Hage Geingob said he has noticed wavering Swapo members who are afraid to be identified as members of the party and are not wearing the party’s colours.

Leaders from various Nama traditional authorities are divided on the genocide reparations pact currently under discussion in the National Assembly.

About 91% of the population in the Oshikoto region who live in the rural areas are deprived of timely information, while only those who live in towns have access.

Windhoek residents will have to tighten their belts even more as on top of this month’s fuel increase, they will also have to fork out more to keep the lights on at their homes and businesses. 

A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped in her father’s bathroom at Omahenene village in the Omusati region.

Security companies doing cash-in transit services in the Erongo region were told to beef up their skills, manpower and change their modus operandi, as their current way of doing business makes them easy targets to criminals.

Despite brushing off the notice that they have lost bargaining power three months ago, one of the country’s biggest unions on Friday received the final nail in their NBC coffin.

Legal Aid has instructed lawyer Titus Ipumbu to take over from Linus Samaria, who withdrew as the legal representative of Andries Afrikaner (39), one of the three men on trial for the murder of an elderly farming couple from Koës in the south.

The Directorate of Legal Aid has appointed Joseph Andreas from Andreas-Hamunyela Law firm to further defend Marthinus Pretorius, who was convicted of raping two under-aged girls and of trafficking in persons. 

The Tsumeb Municipality says it will absorb 23 temporary workers, who have served the institution for years, and make them permanent employees.