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The Windhoek Magistrate’s Court will give a ruling in the bail application of Swapo youth leader Sylas Mungoba next week. 

The Kavango West director of education, Teopolina Hamutumua, is leaving the region to take up a new position as the chief regional officer of Oshana effective 1 September.

The army has been called in to help fight a veld fire that’s been raging in the Dordabis area since Tuesday.

The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) Windhoek councillors are back at work.

A 56-year-old man shot himself with a shotgun on Tuesday evening at Oshitundu village in the Oshikuku constituency of the Omusati region.

A case in which the chief magistrate, the Electoral Commission of Namibia’s regional coordinator and the minister of urban and rural development are asking the High Court to review, set aside and correct the election of the //Kharas Regional Council’s management committee, has been postponed.

Swapo’s chief whip in the National Assembly, Hambyuka Hamunyera has dismissed insinuations that his party’s members of parliament are scared of the Landless People’s Movement legislators, saying they are ready to engage in robust debates, not insults.

The country’s meat processor, Meatco, has expressed discontent with the way the Meat Board of Namibia articulated its concerns with its wellbeing, saying the regulator is sowing doubts among the corporation’s local and international stakeholders. 

About 75 000 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses, donated by the Netherlands authorities, will arrive in the country this Sunday, health ministry executive director Ben Nangombe confirmed yesterday. 

A police officer at Oshikango allegedly shot and killed a man at Onamhinda village near the Angolan border on Wednesday evening.