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Beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Goals Impact Facility (SDGIF), jointly established by the trade ministry in conjunction with the United Nations Development Programme of Namibia in 2020, have spoken out about their experiences. 

The remains of Bakgalagadi chief Tidimalo Hubert Ditshabue, who succumbed to Covid-19 on 5 July 2021, at the age of 67, was laid to rest at the Corridor 20 Royal Cemetery on Tuesday.

A reefer container converted into a mortuary was inaugurated at Tsumeb yesterday to capacitate the overwhelmed hospital morgue.

​​​​​​​While government continues to urge all Namibians to get vaccinated against the deadly Covid-19, Zambezi only has two fixed vaccination points and three mobile teams to cover the entire region.

​​​​​​​Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has urged all Namibians to stringently follow public health guidelines to decrease the spread of the coronavirus, which will ultimately remove the need to open new field hospitals.

Despite fears that coronavirus infections have not dropped sufficiently and many people are still vaccine-hesitant, the education ministry’s executive director Sanet Steenkamp believes resuming face-to-face learning is of paramount importance. Pre-primary to grade 9 pupils, currently on a winter holiday, will resume contact learning on 4 August 2021.

Amid a flurry of revelations that all is not well in the City of Windhoek’s ruling coalition, analysts have urged the parties to focus on service delivery. 

Junior employees are said to have spilled the beans on irregular dealings at Tsumeb, leading to a fresh investigation which resulted in the recent suspension of the municipality’s acting CEO Karolina Damaseb.

The case of former magistrate Walter Mostert and his co-accused will be transferred to the regional court, where they will face trial in August.

Prosecutor Marthino Olivier basically conceded that the State failed to prove its case against one of the accused in a murder-for-hire trial.